Today's pop-me-a-pill-I'm-unhappy world.
source: http://www.lvrj.com/health/antidepressants-most-popular-prescription-medication-in-u-s-12816...
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Remember sucking candy out of a plastic neck?
Pez Dispensers, they call them. Flip back the noggin of Bugs Bunny or the Tasmanian Devil and extract a tangy little pellet. Kids love 'em. Adults, too -- now dispensing Prozac, Paxil, Abilify, Wellbutrin, Lexapro and Zoloft.
Or so it sometimes seems in today's pop-me-a-pill-I'm-unhappy world.
"We live in a fast-paced culture, so people think they can get rid of bad feelings just by swallowing," says Las Vegas psychiatrist Dr. Norton Roitman. "They think they don't have to make an effort."
Add such now-common names as Celexa, Cymbalta, Effexor and Pristiq to the aforementioned list, thanks to carpet bombing-style advertising on television. (Seen the animated one in which a woman, her body half-buried in the ground, rises once a kindly doctor arrives, presumably with a cache of Abilify?)
Read full article: http://www.lvrj.com/health/antidepressants-most-popular-prescription-medication-...
Pez Dispensers, they call them. Flip back the noggin of Bugs Bunny or the Tasmanian Devil and extract a tangy little pellet. Kids love 'em. Adults, too -- now dispensing Prozac, Paxil, Abilify, Wellbutrin, Lexapro and Zoloft.
Or so it sometimes seems in today's pop-me-a-pill-I'm-unhappy world.
"We live in a fast-paced culture, so people think they can get rid of bad feelings just by swallowing," says Las Vegas psychiatrist Dr. Norton Roitman. "They think they don't have to make an effort."
Add such now-common names as Celexa, Cymbalta, Effexor and Pristiq to the aforementioned list, thanks to carpet bombing-style advertising on television. (Seen the animated one in which a woman, her body half-buried in the ground, rises once a kindly doctor arrives, presumably with a cache of Abilify?)
Read full article: http://www.lvrj.com/health/antidepressants-most-popular-prescription-medication-...
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