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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
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.
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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.
