On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:46 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote:
> We're getting somewhere, yes. The issue is, what do these
> medications do? We can understand how the lobotomy achieves the
> desired outcome, which is to make the problem person more easily
> manageable.
>
> Are the drugs simply a chemical way of doing the same thing?
Yeah, to some degree, but you're sounding as if people with affective disorders aren't miserably unhappy and wanting to feel less miserable.
Doug