Antidepressant Use in U.S. Has Almost Doubled

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Anyone looking for lasting change? Listen to this account of someone who found real help for her severe depression... http://www.mynameisrush.com/blog/?p=723

Rush of FL 4:11PM February 02, 2010

antidepressants and mood stabilizers under the supervision of a psychaitrist have saved the life of several of my loved ones who suffer from major depression. Just because some drugs are overused doesn't mean that some people don't truly need them.

Lynne of IN 3:37PM August 22, 2009

Depression, and probably bipolar disorders, are ones of the most difficult mental illness to deal with. The unaware sufferer believes that an antidepressant would get rid of the disorders. That is not so. The depressed becomes desperate and begins trying several medications hoping than one would to the trick. It will not happen. As a a result, the depressed, resorts to all kinds of treatments hoping that some day, somehow, somewhat, a miraculous drug will relief him/her of his/her misery. It is an ongoing battle. Meanwhile. the mental health treatment community give you `palliatives`hoping for the better. It is an absolute shame.

tangledsynapses of WA 6:38PM August 06, 2009

The Sickness of Curing Sadness.
By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.
Let Me, as Prophet, warn the world that it is a sickness by itself to treat sadness as a disease. When there are mishalves such as lost of love ones, belonging and jobs, people should feel sad and there are nothing wrong with that. When there are no sadness how can one feel happiness as they are all relative to each other? What is really wrong are people who are trying to avoid feeling sad by taking addictive drugs. As people are getting sader and sader, more and more drugs will be needed to the point of incurable. The whole business about anti-depressants is a sick scheme for pharmaceutical companies to make their profit.

Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment. 6:54AM August 06, 2009

My grandmother cryed an hour everyday. My mother cried 2 hours everyday. I feel like dying everyday for 3 hours, without medication.
Men that are depressed are usually angry,hostile and without meds can be belligerent and violent, now that I think of it many women in the last 15 years show the same affects as men.Guess a good cry would mean you are unstable.
I have Cancer and Doctor's now prescribe Cymbalta,Paxil instead of Percocet and Oxycotin. Cymbalta works better for extreme pain management, as well as chronic pain.
Take a klonapin and stabilize anger outburst and violence, oh what was your point?
Since the light bulb, humans are required to be out of homeostasis, working past their threshold of endurance,fueled by cigarettes, coffee, alcohol 1930's, through about 1985.
Now is a little different your dollar is worth 27 cents of the 2005 dollar, your salary in 2005 was 50k, now it is 18k which is 6k in 2005 dollars, and groceries are 300% more. The utility companies, insurance gouge you into submission.
During the Depression you could buy a coke,Mr. Goodbar, an apple for 5cents. Go to the movies all day Saturday with Shirley Temple a celebrity who lived behind Chevy Chase Lake Exon now BP for a quarter.
In our WASP society empathy 0, hugs 0, so you don't have much support to make any oxytosin in your brain.
God forbid you show any emotion or ask for support.

gd4u of MD 4:33PM August 05, 2009

I could care less how many pills adults in America are taking. That is their choice if they want to do that. What I would like to point out are the 6 million American children that are being given psychiatric medications. Adults know what they are taking, why they want to take it and what it is going to do to them. Children are given medication by adults, and in their head they feel the medication is used to "fix" them. As if there is something wrong with them that adults don’t like. Is there anyone that has gone threw puberty feeling completely normal? No! So why now do we think that when an adolescent is sad, angry or too hyper do we need to give them a pill to make them "normal". Please keep in mind what we are doing to our future generations and what we are teaching them. Sure it's different then telling them that there is a bearded man in the clouds to fix their problem but teaching them that chemicals will fix their problems isn't any better.

Erin T of CA 8:16PM August 04, 2009

It's all good, man... What is wrong with everybody feeling a little better than yesterday. Pop a couple of pills and then invest in the stock market, watch a few hours of TV, go out for a drink or two or fifty, pop some more pills to help go asleep nice and easy, then tomorrow start all over. Where is the problem with that?
HERE IT IS: DOCTORS, BIG PHARMA and fat profits. Add to that poor education (and I mean starting from K to Ivy League), Hollywood and this is what our people have become: an irresponsible pill popping greedy drunks and gamblers. And that is along way from what it used to be.
What do we do now? In my opinion we should start over... from late 50's.
I hope I am not offending anyone. This is meant as a wake-up call...

Adam of NC 1:53PM August 04, 2009

But there is another question about this; Who is takcing them because they really need them and who dozing just for fun? most antidepressants make you feel "happy" or give you a "high"

Robert of FL 1:41PM August 04, 2009

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) has been proven to reduce seratonin levels in the brain, a main cause of depression. Diet soda and other 'sugar-free' products have been pumping these excitotoxins into us for decades, resulting in DOUBLE the brain cancer rate of the year before it's conspiratorially-pushed FDA approval.
I'd bet money that this poison is responsible for some of the rise in antidepressant use.
Watch 'Sweet Misery' online and judge for yourself.

Peter Chrissanthis of CA 1:33PM August 04, 2009