Depression Meds

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Add me to the list. It never ceases to amaze me just how overly medicated (generally speaking) our society is. There should not be ads for prescription drugs on television; its validated the irresponsible concept of people going to doctors and telling them what drug(s) they need, empowering those who feel a doctor's medical diagnosis is annoyingly perfunctory at best.

"And she goes running for the shelter
of her mother's little helper..."

Yeah, I agree with this, at least to a point. Perfect example, Michael Jackson. (Not for depression meds, of course, but I feel it ties in as far as drugs allegedly being prescribed when they're not needed.)
Having said that, I'm certain there are many people who genuinely need them - - - apparently the neurotransmitter serotonin is considered to be the "culprit" these days.

At the other extreme, it annoys me a bit - - just being honest - when Scientologists such as Tom Cruise discount ALL possible benefits of meds for psychiatric issues. It seems to me that he's stubbornly ignoring legitimate results from medical science and choosing to believe what he believes simply because he WANTS it to be that way. Maybe that's fine for him but i.m.o. he's taking it too far when he speaks out publicly and causes thousands of people to go off their meds, simply "because he said it so it MUST be true." I honestly feel he's abusing his power as a celebrity when he does that; and he's doing it in an ill-informed, misguided way.