tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post8781899159769309755..comments2024-01-01T09:20:22.363-05:00Comments on Brutal Women: Thought for the DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-54587331031734247222007-04-29T13:59:00.000-04:002007-04-29T13:59:00.000-04:00mmmm, Lexapro. The chocolate-chip cookie dough of ...mmmm, Lexapro. The chocolate-chip cookie dough of SSRIs.<BR/><BR/>Though I just switched to the generic citalopram because I got tired of the $50 co-pays on escitalopram.<BR/><BR/><I>And sudddenly, my life didn't feel like shit anymore, and a lot of things in my life that I didn't like, well I finallly had the energy to change those things.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah. Exactly. <BR/><BR/>I don't think Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-11479474940635446292007-04-29T12:10:00.000-04:002007-04-29T12:10:00.000-04:00Hmmmm. My father was bi-polar. All of his siblings...Hmmmm. My father was bi-polar. All of his siblings were depressed and alcoholics. My cousins are 1.) bi-polar, 2.) schizophrenic and 3.) all alcoholics. I sense a trend here.<BR/><BR/>Yet when presented with my own bizarre behavior as a child, my pediatrician told my mom that I was just a rebellious child who would grow out of her moodiness. Yeah.<BR/><BR/>Flash forward to my being 29 years old clindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09337038541423116138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-31795069402183535462007-04-29T08:24:00.000-04:002007-04-29T08:24:00.000-04:00Have you heard of the Thinking Blogger Awards? You...Have you heard of the <A HREF="http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/02/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html" REL="nofollow">Thinking Blogger Awards</A>? <A HREF="http://powerofinformation.blogspot.com/2007/04/blogs-that-make-me-think.html" REL="nofollow">You have been tagged</A><BR/><BR/>hope, you'll like the meme "5 Blogs That Make Me Think" as much as i do ;-)Againhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00343533191828425840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-38226614202612444282007-04-28T22:23:00.000-04:002007-04-28T22:23:00.000-04:00Yeah, again: meds are wonderful things. They can r...Yeah, again: meds are wonderful things. They can rebalance chemical stuff, and in many cases, allow people to have the energy to help change bad situations that they wouldn't have had the energy to do anyway.<BR/><BR/>Posting a link to this post wasn't an endorsement of a rah-rah all pills are BAD thing. Again, I've been in situations with people where antidepressents did wonderful things, and meKameron Hurleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098854454236774225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-80711223454352856432007-04-28T20:41:00.000-04:002007-04-28T20:41:00.000-04:00That was meeeeeeeeeeee.That was meeeeeeeeeeee.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01968432071784596508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-19859370021364113382007-04-28T20:40:00.000-04:002007-04-28T20:40:00.000-04:00>We absolutely do need to acknowledge that there a...>We absolutely do need to acknowledge that there are a lot of people who have something wrong with their brain, and those people need meds. But it may be that for some cases we're medicating unhappiness rather than taking steps (as a society) to fix inequality and social isolation.<BR/><BR/>I think is pretty much where I'd fall, except that I'd phrase it "...medicating unhappiness without taking Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01968432071784596508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-3648521288436109992007-04-28T19:58:00.000-04:002007-04-28T19:58:00.000-04:00Of course there's a vicious circle going on as wel...Of course there's a vicious circle going on as well, which is that depression (no matter what the reason for it) makes your life suck. No motivation? Good luck with school and work. No desire for socializing? Good luck with friends and dating. <BR/><BR/>We absolutely do need to acknowledge that there are a lot of people who have something wrong with their brain, and those people need meds. But itEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16101894465905982286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-16815161603307582672007-04-28T19:25:00.000-04:002007-04-28T19:25:00.000-04:00I like the way they used personal anecdotes withou...I like the way they used personal anecdotes without any statistics to back up their sweeping conclusions at the end.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, Kameron, but this is a rather a sore spot for me: so many people believe that depression is something you should just be able to "snap out of." Which wasn't necessarily this individual's argument.... but there was the implicit assumption that depression in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-63853129436936779922007-04-28T16:28:00.000-04:002007-04-28T16:28:00.000-04:00Wait, has anybody actually suggested you try anti-...<I>Wait, has anybody actually suggested you try anti-depressants or therapy or something? Is that what this is about? </I><BR/><BR/>Naw, I just thought it was an interesting article. <BR/><BR/>And yeah, as somebody who's lived with several people whose lives were fine but who's brains went wacky, I do know the benefits of the pills. But I also know that for people unhappy with life and where theyKameron Hurleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098854454236774225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7463512.post-73914854024737253662007-04-28T14:16:00.000-04:002007-04-28T14:16:00.000-04:00Well, that might be true for "most" people. Whoeve...Well, that might be true for "most" people. Whoever they are. It's certainly true for the poor woman who was forced into an institution because she divorced a man she didn't love. <BR/><BR/>But as someone who takes anti-depressants as a migraine preventative and because of an unfortunate genetic predisposition, I gotta say: my life was going along just hunky-dory fine until my brain chemistry Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com