An article in the Wall Street Journal today explores the phenomenon of children growing up on antidepressants.
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Great article! I recommend.
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Emotionally illiterate? How about brain/internal organ damage. SSRI’s are pure poison. I’m speechless.
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Good article, though it’s still promulgating the notion of chemical imbalance, and reading the comments section, that myth is still ever present…
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A horrible article. The guy who wrote it is sitting on the fence, having a bet each way, and believes there are people with ‘chemical imbalances’ or legitimate biomedical mental disorders or whatever he says I couldn’t be bothered finding the exact quote. If his article is this lame, I doubt his book will be any good. A book about ‘growing up in the era of psych drugs’, from a guy who believes in brain disease causing human problems? no thanks.
A very middling effort but what do you expect in the mainstream media? miracles?
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