Anti Depressants?...

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>The fact remains, Carrol, that people who are physically active, 
>tend not to be depressed, that the depressed tend not to be 
>physically active.
>
>You disagree with the approach?  Fine, hope you, yours, and everyone 
>else can afford the prescriptions for a problem that predates 
>psychiatry.  I'd rather take my dose of reality from a couple laps 
>around the block, than from a pill bottle.
>
>Reese

The problem is that opinions like yours, Reese, will make it 
difficult for people to afford medicines & other forms of treatment 
if they become doxa.  HMOs & insurance companies will be happy to 
make "a couple of laps around the bloc" (which would cost them 
nothing) a standard treatment for clinical depression and other 
mental illnesses if they can get away with it.  The idea that mental 
illness is not in fact an "illness" but a moral problem of laziness 
(for instance, unwillingness to stay physically active) constitutes a 
political obstacle for sufferers.

Yoshie