[lbo-talk] RE: The Economics of Depression

[Carl Remick]

>From: joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>
>
>The best thing I've read that relates to your question is Thomas Szasz's 
>"The Myth of Mental Illness."
>
>I think alienation and stress (the two pillars of post-modern life) play a 
>large part in depression and anxiety.

Absolutely.  Which is why I think it's pure folly to deal with depression on 
the individual level and to treat it symptomatically as a chemical problem 
using antidepressants.  IMO, depression is above all a social problem that 
calls for social change.

Carl

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