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posted by [identity profile] willowgreen.livejournal.com at 02:41am on 04/10/2005
Even more timely is a revelation concerning behaviour modification gone awry that resonates in this age of Zoloft.

Ugh, I hate it when people equate psychiatric medication with mind control. Zoloft and its cousins have improved the lives of numerous people I love and probably literally saved the lives of several of them.

On the other hand, the idea that humans as a group aren't good enough and have to be improved, all at the same time, never seems to work out well. But that's kind of a different thing from giving medicine to people who are sick.
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 07:15pm on 04/10/2005
Agreed -- psychiatric meds, and especially anti-depressants, have been a life-saver to too many people for them still to be getting such a bad rap.

On the other hand, I suppose that there may be SOME tendency to over-diagnose or over-prescribe on the fringes of the medical community. But it's nothing like as widespread or "mind-control-ish" as this writer makes it sound.

That comment strikes me as one of those unexamined "it's trendy to say it so it must be so, though I haven't ever taken the trouble to check it out" sentiments that appear all too often in pseudo-news stories these days.
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