Posted by linkadge on February 20, 2007, at 7:36:51
In reply to Are we culturally primed to expect too much?, posted by Squiggles on February 20, 2007, at 7:18:59
We are a very comercial society. We expect to get our money's worth so to speak.
The drug companies have only fed the underlying misconception that happiness can be bought in pill form.
As human beings we also tend to become acoustomed to whatever we have and to want more.
If you look apart from mild and moderate depression however, I think there is still a trend for higher response in severe depression with the TCA's and MAOI's.
The SSRI's were sucessfull in that they were the first antidepressant that could be dispersed like dandilion spores to the general public.
Kind of like the Ford-T model of antidepressnats.
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