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I don't think death is the serious issue. Its going to be how many people have fried brains and will have to take zoloft et al for the rest of their lives in order to get out of bed.

Win-wins?
 

Slave, now that you have 1010 posts, I am inspired to ask, if I gave you 22 minutes, could you give me the world?



ETA you ruined my joke by posting again so soon. Bastard.

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Or from cigarettes.

She's with me.
 

What can I say - that guy scared me.

Kelly Osbourne - damn, that's cold.

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You think the reason I have to take a Zoloft et al to get out of bed is because I fried my brain doing X?...

Shit, I thought it was because I had a really shitty childhood.

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How many people actually need Zoloft now? You don't need to be an X casualty to wind up on that shit. Hell, all you need to be is someone who's worried too much or depresed about some life choice.

There was a great article in the paper recently about how choice, and knowledge of life choices, creates anxiety and depression. The crux of it was that people now know how good they could possibly have it, or might have had it had they made different choices, and are confronted daily with the results of their decisions. This leads them to lament and brood - a sort of "the grass is always greener elsewhere" syndrome. In the old days, you didn't know how others lived because technology didn't shove it in your face. You didn't know you could find fulfillment in another career, location, etc..., so you didn't brood or get anxious about where you were or where you were going.

I buy the article's premise. Now I have to find someone to sue for the fact that I'll never be satisfied no matter what I do with myself.

Reflexive verbs
 

Forgive my nitpicking, but I think you mean to say "no matter what I do with my life."

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Ok. How many?

It is one thing to make the argument that X is dangerous as a gateway drug. It seems to me that is the best argument you can make for it to be illegal.

Possible long-term effects? Ok. Let's see what evidence comes up (I don't think there is much conclusive evidence right now, but please, prove me wrong). And in any event I seriously doubt they could be as bad as those resulting from the use of alcohol and cigarettes.

X was initially used (fairly successfully, with supervision) as an antidepressant. There are even some psychiatrists who today believe that it would be helpful for treatment of certain types of patients.

It is, without a doubt, safer than either alcohol or nicotine. But the government wants people to worry about it, so they run ridiculous ads inferring that kids are dying from it. That is not true.

I haven't heard anything about the drug that NFH is discussing, and maybe kids ARE dying from it (I'll look into it). All I'm saying is I don't believe things that the government says about drugs in this country just because it is the government saying them. Our drug policy is a hypocricy-leaden mess.

Black Ambition
 

Gervais is hilarious.

I forgot to mention Bill Murray. He's like Chappelle for me. I would rather just hang out with him. It's like every one of his mannerisms is funny.

TM

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When did we start caring about being fulfilled - that is what I would like to know. There are still tons of people in the world that do what they do because their father did it (I mean like the guy in Morocco who knows from birth that he is going to be a particular artisan because that is what he is expected to be because his father and grandfather etc were). Do they care about being fulfilled and just shut up about it? When I see other people like that it makes me feel very self-indulgent to be preoccupied with my happiness and yet at the same time if I live in a time when I can, why not? Hard to decide.

Black Ambition
 

You don't know Diddley.

TM

Cough, cough
 

Everything you'd ever want to know about recreational cough syrup, including known deaths.

I knew some guys in college who liked to "robotize." They annoyed the fuck out of me. And it's not like you couldn't get real drugs.

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Yes.

And no, sweetie, the Paxil is for the shitty childhood. Please keep your meds straight.

Cough, cough
 

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So how many zoloft pills did you have this morning?

TM