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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
Well, if statistics are correct then there's a very good chance that many patients have no psychiactric diagnosis. A study of antidepressant use in private health insurance plans found that over 40% of those who had been prescribed antidepressants had no psychiatric diagnosis or any mental health care beyond the prescription of the drug. No, the medications don't cure depression, but honestly how many people who are on these prescription drugs are really depressed? How many people are depressed and don't know it, and are not on any kind of prescription drugs?
I do think people are more willing to talk about it now than they were in the very distant past, but I think some of the prescription drugs are unnecessary based on what I said earlier in this post.
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Well, it was sometime in the late 1970's when hospitalization was no longer enforced on any unwilling adult unless police became involved... I remember President Reagan signing that decree and a whole bunch of people with true disorders were put out on the street. They became the bums and homeless. But by the time the police were involved, the person has allegedly committed a crime, i.e. assault, robbery, carrying a weapon to cause bodily harm, etc.
Zyban et al. is used to help people to stop smoking. So if that drug was included, that is why they might be saying massive increases in anti-depressants.
Also, when Prozac was admitted to the formulary, Eli Lilly did attempt to stop the selling of the nutritional supplement L-Tryptophan saying it caused a rare eosinophilia. But many drugs cause odd side-effects, including Prozac, which has more dangerous ones and that is why Pharma started making extended release tabs. Tryptophan has repeated shown to have better effects than Prozac or Wellbutrin.
I think we see new drug systems to treat psychotropic conditions or mental conditions without the full knowledge of neurology or biochemical genetics that are in play to developing the "true" mental disorders. However, I would rather someone with Schizo-affective disorder be treated with Olazapine, anyday...
I am not following your concern: Is your thinking that there is something wrong with people globally? Or how come the poorest of the poor do not suffer from depression? Or you were merely shocked at the number of US citizens using (abusing) antidepressants? Let's not talk about the amount of antidepressent drugs in flushed down the toilet and may be in our drinking water...
I can tell you that very few people actively do have bipolar I or II and are NOT medicated, and had no idea they have it. Some depression and bipolars do correlate with type 2 diabetes development. The research as to why is sketchy at best.
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