Tuesday, July 10, 2007
UNHAPPY? TAKE A PILL?
Link HERE for a very interesting article on the skyrocketing use of antidepressants in this country. Who would have ever thought that any pill would be more prescribed than high blood pressure medicine?
There is an interesting point in this article about whether antidepressants are actually being prescribed to treat unhappiness rather than clinical depression. Certainly the advertisements for some of these pills make me think I could be a lot happieer if I took them.
Of course, this all brings to question ... will the increased use of antidepressants decrease the need for blood pressure medications?
Is some of this, though, an indiciation that Americans are always searching for something? Have we hit 2007 and realized that free love of the 60s and 70s, materialism of the 80s, and consumerism of the 90s have not brought us happiness so now we will just medicate ourselves?
(Note to anyone out there -- I am a firm believer in antidepressants for clinical depression; this article raises some questions though. Are that many more of us truly depressed these days? Is the availability of good medications just increasing their use for the right purpose? I don't know.)
There is an interesting point in this article about whether antidepressants are actually being prescribed to treat unhappiness rather than clinical depression. Certainly the advertisements for some of these pills make me think I could be a lot happieer if I took them.
Of course, this all brings to question ... will the increased use of antidepressants decrease the need for blood pressure medications?
Is some of this, though, an indiciation that Americans are always searching for something? Have we hit 2007 and realized that free love of the 60s and 70s, materialism of the 80s, and consumerism of the 90s have not brought us happiness so now we will just medicate ourselves?
(Note to anyone out there -- I am a firm believer in antidepressants for clinical depression; this article raises some questions though. Are that many more of us truly depressed these days? Is the availability of good medications just increasing their use for the right purpose? I don't know.)
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For years I believed that the right pill would help me feel "Right". I tried this pill and that pill, some pharmicutital and some not. I smoked this and I drank that, all the time looking for that thing to help me feel right" and fill the void I had inside.
I was depressed and for sure unhappy but was never able to find help in a pill. God knows I tried everything know to man for help.
It wasn't until I was ready to lay all of that down and ask God to help that I found a true anti-depressent. Since then I have not had to use other things to help me fill my void and feel "right".
Today I know my help is inside and not outside.
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