[2908] in Depressing_Thoughts
pills and shrinks
ccount@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ccount@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 10 12:40:59 1992
I just found that another friend is now on Prozac (or other
psychodrugs).
Why?
Years ago, I was very depressed, and went to the shrinks. I felt that
only drugs would straighten me out. But they just sent me to a social
worker, who'd charge me $$$ to say exactly the same words that many of
my friends were saying for free. So I gave up on the whole thing and
_eventually_ worked things out somewhat.
I am much much less depressed nowadays, but even so I have the feeling
that if I walked into a shrink's office I'd walk out with a bottle of
pills.
I don't think this is a good thing.
Are the pills that much better? Are the shrinks better? Or are the
shrinks worse?
And when the majority qualify for drugs for depression, maybe it's all
backwards, and we should be doping the 'happy' people to make _them_
normal instead.
