Sic(k) Transit Gloria Prozac
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My-my, pop goes one of the great latter day medication
legends.
After 20 years it is now all over the news and good that the
make-belief in such stuff is busted.
All those managers popping
Prozac as a lifestyle and career enhancer, to make tougher executive decisions
and do nor want to run away to mommy every now and again might have been been
under a PR – and placebo – spell?
Get outta here!
The
chemical answer to sometimes rather normal and healthy human feeling of sadness
is de-mystified finally.
Thank you! The flying pig is ready for
landing.
A money-making-machine-fairytale
of functioning no matter how depressed we are and why is over at least for many
of us.
So Tony Soprano had a point after all?
He was feeling
depressed because he led a life he did not really want to lead in the first
place.
The Prozac just numbs you for a time but never takes away
the reasons for being perhaps dissatisfied how your life has turned
out.
And not every Don is suffering from conscience and clear sight
like bada-binging Anthony Soprano.
Learning to understand
feelings and how to cope is better than pills.
Being depressed is
not a weakness and should like in them olden days be shared to overcome the deep
dark valley or at least to be able to look beyond it, where the light
shines.
Just feeling low or disgruntled for longer than a day
should not mean that one can show up at the doctor’s and leave with a
prescription for SSRI (Selective Serotonine Reuptake Inhibitor).
We
do not need more medication but more tolerance towards those suffering
depression.
We want to help us and others to a new attitude right in face of
sadness, disappointment, grief or angst.
It means hard but good
work.
Most things in life can be overcome, if not by ourselves then
by time.
Hope and Love are great healers too.
When I
feel like the dark-clouded heavens are weighing down exclusively on poor me I
touch my MIZPAH, think of those I love and whom I never would want to let down.
Then I exercise until I feel alive and think of bluer skies again and grab that
big choccie bar.
This article published by MIZPAH Magazine - ©2010 www.mizpah.tv
© Helena Lind
the prozac manufacturers are already working on the next big thing..so I don’t think they care whether it worked or not!
cannot be ! I take it since a couple of months and in definitly works zsp
You are so right. When my father died our GP prescribed SSRI so I could stay functional. He meant well. First I thought they work but then I began to feel like a zombie.
So I decided to slowly stop and accepted bereavement and sadness.
There are no pills against grief.
You must live through it.
As you say it is hard but good work.
Thank you for this touching article.