Posted by Conundrum on July 11, 2010, at 23:15:54
In reply to Lou's response-huelz » Jeroen, posted by Lou Pilder on July 10, 2010, at 20:58:00
Lou I took a look at this video and I'm not really sure how it relates to what we are talking about in referring to long standing brain damage. This is more about celebrities overdosing on antidepressants would have overdosed anyway. The one thing that seemed close was how Ernest Hemmingway described how the ECT erased his memory and how he won't be able to write since he used things from his memory. I tend to think his depression led him to suicide not the ECT.
Most of the video is just celebrities overdosing on pills and is unrelated to what we are talking about. Trying to put the blame on pills for people overdosing. As far as drugs making people manic and going postal, I would need to research that more but to me that sounds plausible.
Being angry about antidepressants because people misuse tranquilizers commit suicide doesn't mean they don't serve a purpose. People can use a toaster and a bathtub to commit suicide as well, but we don't through the toaster out with the bath water do we?
I found the video just too showy, with every thing taken out of context and put into the context that he wanted people to see. The author wanted to show that drugs caused suicides, not their inner demons. A true researcher would have look at everything in these cases before making a movie condemning drugs that don't cause these effects in the large majority of the people who take them.
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