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The Down Side of Popping Pills
The doctors prescribe the pills to "make me happy." The pills just don't allow me to think. I don't have a chance to be happy or upset. I'm just
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Posted in: News on January 13, 2006 @ 12:00 AM
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What does it say about our society?
Posted by: Kneel on Jan 11, 2006 3:56 PM [Report this comment]
That's another question here. I mean, if your medicating so many people to fit into the society, maybe it's the society that's screwed up.
For example, if you were in a bus that was headed for a cliff, you'd probably feel considerable anxiety. Would the solution be to try to change the course of the bus, or to take a pill (or get talk therapy) so you could see the problem as your own anxiety.
When I had very real concerns about the nuclear arms race, a shrink gave me anti-depressants. I believed the problem was me, and that I had to stop thinking about it and so on.
Of course, a better solution occured much later, when I found like-minded people, realized I wasn't insane, and got involved with the freeze movement.
Unfortunately, most of our anxiety and depression is treated as the disease rather than the symptom. If you feel alone and alienated, that your job (that is, what you do with most of your life) is meaningless and pointless, that our society is on some bizarre course that's not benefiting anyone... well, clearly, you need to have your brain altered (some, like Breggin, would say damaged - temporarily or not) by scary chemicals.