CNN worried that Americans are taking too many unnecessary

[HysteryDiagnosis]

antidepressants..... maybe, maybe not. Think about it.

[trumad]

1. Fire Glenn Beck and we'll decrease our dependence.

[Philosoraptor]

2. And stop showing all those commercials for drugs while bashing marijuana.

[ixion]

4. amen to that

:applause:

[treestar]

3. They don't want to many people to be happy and content

Otherwise, they might quit buying useless junk or giving up in despair.

Mindless "journalists" naturally don't need anti-depressants.

[Old and In the Way]

5. The Impeachment pill is a great cure for depression.

CNN should devote some time, extolling its virtues.

[LiberalEsto]

10. Hear hear

My doses could be cut in half....

[sendero]

6. I agree with them..

... SSRIs are handed out like candy. For people with real clinical depression, they are a god send. But somehow I doubt that 10% of adults actually have clinical depression. If they do, it's got to mean something, but I could only speculate what.

60% of folks who take SSRIs become sexually dysfunctional. So I suppose that most people who don't really need them would bail on them for that reason alone.

When going through a divorce I was prescribed Paxil, and I had a strange negative reaction to them which my family doctor poo-pooed as impossible.

But if he'd known what he was doing, he'd have known that this reaction was perfectly predicted in certain situations.

He was generally a very good doctor, but once the dust settled I realized that family physicians have no business whatsoever prescribing these drugs. They should require a psychiatrist's prescription, or at least initial diagnosis.

[Lasher]

7. I always check out new drugs on the internet before taking them

I learn more about them than my doctor tells me.

[sendero]

8. Good for you...

.. I agree totally and always do the same.

In fact, my wife recently quite possibly literally saved her life when she had a somewhat rare but deadly adverse reaction to some strong antibiotics (of the fluoroquinolone class).

Her doctor, as many, did not understand the severity and danger of certain side effects. These drugs can KILL YOU if you have this reaction (not an allergic reaction BTW).

It took her 3 days to figure out what was happening and another 3 after she stopped taking them to feel right again.

FWIW, I have taken the same drug with no problems in the past.

But many do not understand that many popular drugs (the anti-cholesterol STATIN class drugs come to mind) have "rare" side effects that, left undetected, will KILL YOU. Modern drugs do some miraculous things, but care must be taken in their use.

[nolabels]

9. I worry that just ONE hour watching CNN is too much

Recently recovering from hernia surgery, lying in bed and too painfully sore to move much, i found myself with not having much access to the information to world outside. So like a brave person i decided to view. Boy was i ever surprised on how much i was NOT missing. Consequently a while later I had to :puke:




I learned a valuable lesson that day, if one is not feeling well but has some time to kill, CNN is not an option

[Philosoraptor]

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