Why are so many people on anti-depressants in this day and time, why are so many children add, taking meds?
Has anyone seen the movie Prozac Nation? Why are we so depressed this day and age that so many people including teens on anti-depressants. Also, all you hear about in kids now is ADD, and taking meds for this. I’m in my early 40′s and it seems like things go in waves, when my kids were babies, which they were lucky not to have this, they were putting in tubes in ears…is this all just a money making thing, or is the world’s environment changing so fast, that we are getting chemically induced somewhere that makes us/people have to take this medicine. Any views on this
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I’m 55 and I take Zoloft — have been taking it for about 10 years. I needed it long, long, long before that, but in the “old days” we were supposed to just pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and keep on going. It was very difficult for me and for my family.
I know what you mean. I am the same age as you and I have seen the “fads” in medicine too.
Speaking only for myself, I have had some pretty severe illnesses that 100 years ago, I would have died. One of my meds is an antidepressant. It helps counteract some of the side effects of the other meds I have to take to live.
Those meds are a great tool– and I am grateful for them, but I also think they are overused.
In my opinion it is a money-making, extremely profitable scheme by the pharmaceutical companies and doctors.
I do think there are those who truly need these drugs, but doctors are too quick in prescribling them.
I also think it’s bad parenting.
With both parents working nowadays and stressed out, they do not have the time to properly discipline their children, and putting them on drugs makes their kids more controllable.
Doctors and parents use these drugs as a quick fix in far too many cases, in my opinion.
The sickness industry in America works tirelessly to promote its expensive products. More money is spent on advertising and promoting the use of all kinds of drugs then ever gets spent on research. Depression is a goldmine for the sickness industry; hence the large numbers of unhappy folks diagnosed and aggressively treated with these poweful drugs. It is more a question of economics than health.
I am on the view of thank goodness for modern science and technologies. I think there is a vast change in people using antidepressants etc, is that it accepted now There are many studies that show, many people have brain imbalances that can be greatly improved on by being on certain medicines etc. And why shouldn’t they want to improve on their lives if they can. There was a time, when a depressed person was put inside a psychiatric ward..and treated like an animal, for something they could not control. People were also very ignorant back then too..and feared a differences in people..instead of trying to understand IT.
I shudder to think of all the people who would have to suffer needlessly because of ignorant views of taking antidepressants etc.