[lbo-talk] Lack of left due to prescription drugs?

[Carrol Cox]

This is a reasonable hypothesis held I believe by some but not all 
psychiatrists/neuroscientists. But there is no real or dependable 
knowledge on any form of mental illness. In the past, and perhaps still, 
some psychiatrists suggested that there is no such thing as depression, 
there are only bipolar patients who have never had a manic episode. In 
any case, the current typology of mental illness almost certainly will 
change. No current diagnosis is much more than an educated guess.

Until something bettger comes along,  SSRIs, vicious as they are in some 
ways, are probably a useful placebo that helps many to trudge along with 
their lives.

Carrol

  5/25/2011 1:51 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 10:27 PM 5/24/2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> But aren't they people who turned anger unproductively against 
>> themselves in the first place?
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> "Depression is anger turned inward."   Dr. Melfi
>
> Google turns up a couple hundred thousand results when you enter this 
> phrase.  How old is it anyway?
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