[lbo-talk] let's argue about the cause of mental illness

[shag carpet bomb]

At 02:53 AM 8/27/2009, Somebody Somebody wrote:
>Suicide rates in the U.S. have been on a slight uptick in recent years (5% 
>over ten years ago), but they're still much lower than they were up until 
>the 90's... when antidepressants began to be widely prescribed. I doubt 
>this is a coincidence. The rise in acceptance of both talk therapy and 
>prescriptions for mental illness has been a progressive historical 
>development.
>
>Why leftists would oppose this is beyond me. Just as we demand public 
>health care, we should be agitating for public mental health care. 
>Instead, we have radicals implicitly finding common ground with 
>traditionalists, obscurantists, and Scientologists. But, really this is 
>just part and parcel of the reactionary anti-technology undercurrent of 
>the contemporary left.

i'm not sure what this has to do with the topic. how is questioning the 
role played by profiteering pharmaceutical companies anti-technology?