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In reply to the discussion: Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes [View all]downandoutnow
(56 posts)All these head pills are really messing people up.
And I'm completely NOT opposed to people chemically altering their mental states - OCCASIONALLY. You want to get drunk and/or high now and then? Be my guest! The desire to get high is a normal human thing, JUST as being sad ("depression'" or having changes of mood ("manic-depressive" or being bored ("ADD" are.
But at least when you get DRUNK or smoke some WEED it's a TEMPORARY chemical change. You really need to be a world-class alcoholic or pothead to be constantly drunk or stoned. For most of us, it's a few hours thing. But the way pills are pushed at people, people are supposed to be CONSTANTLY under their influence.
And these pills really do a number on people's internals - their kidneys and stomach linings, for example. I know a woman who has been a pill-popper for most of her adult life. She's only 39 now. A few years ago she was the queen of curves - the good kind of curves. Well she's gone from 145 lbs to 125 lbs to close to 100 now I think, because eating is painful for her - her stomach lining is shot. If she can make it to 50, she'll be lucky.