Nice find Debbie. I was shocked at the opening paragraph. That someone would openly say something like that.

I also 100% agree with you about anti depressants. I think there are people who need them, for whom depression is a sickness. But I know from personal experience that doctors are willing, if not pushing, to give anybody who has had a bad couple of months, or very legitimate reasons to be blue (ie bad circumstances that would get anybody down), a prescription to antidepressants. I am Canadian, and now live in Germany. I find this pill pushing behavior to be much more common in Canada than here in Germany, where the doctors seem more attuned to the fact that when circumstances a...

Nice find Debbie. I was shocked at the opening paragraph. That someone would openly say something like that.

I also 100% agree with you about anti depressants. I think there are people who need them, for whom depression is a sickness. But I know from personal experience that doctors are willing, if not pushing, to give anybody who has had a bad couple of months, or very legitimate reasons to be blue (ie bad circumstances that would get anybody down), a prescription to antidepressants. I am Canadian, and now live in Germany. I find this pill pushing behavior to be much more common in Canada than here in Germany, where the doctors seem more attuned to the fact that when circumstances are responsible, pushing pills is not the answer to depression. I guess if someone thinks they are having a bad hair day, they should be prescribed Paxil, is the way the trend seems to be going.