Why Americans Are Hooked On Antidepressants
In the News (from MSNBC News): “Antidepressant use doubles in U.S., study finds” Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday. “Significant increases in antidepressant use were evident across all sociodemographic groups examined, except African Americans,” Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University in New York and Steven Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
My Comment: Because people are feeling a new, unearthly desire, which is impossible to fulfill in this world, they are experiencing an incurable state of depression and melancholy that they are trying to suppress with drugs or other addictive substances. However, this desire can instead be fulfilled with the desired pleasure by revealing the Upper World, using the method of fulfilling this new desire, the soul. This method is called the “Wisdom of Kabbalah.” Kabbalah is translated from Hebrew as “reception or fulfillment.”
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You are so right! I always knew that my depression was a spiritual disease more than anything else. But doctors prefer to document the dramas in your life as explanation. Studying the Kabbalah is a wonderful alternative to depression. But thank God, depression gives us a reason to examine one’s life.
However, there is another reason people are hooked on anti-depressants – because the doctors would rather you stay on them, than have to deal with you again during a later descent.
And there is a more bodily reason – because people are hooked on the more modern (and more effective) anti-depressants – because, they are addictive and trying to come off them often causes very distressing neurolgical symptoms. http://bipolar.about.com/cs/antidep/a/0207_ssridisc1.htm is one example of such information.