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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Immortalist wrote   
   > Rod Speed  wrote   
   >> Immortalist wrote   
      
   >>> (1) - Newer drugs, more social acceptance: It may be more socially   
   >>> acceptable to be diagnosed with and treated for depression. The   
   >>> availability of new drugs may also have been a factor.   
      
   >>> (2) - Cost may be deterrent to talk therapy: Therapy is   
   >>> as effective as, if not more effective than, drug use alone,...   
      
   >> Easy to claim. Have fun actually substantiating that claim.   
      
   > What are the criteria for substantiating such a claim?   
      
   One obvious criterium is the suicide rate seen etc.   
      
   > Is it just standard social science statistics and if so what is so hard   
   > about deciding which methods lead to more or less problems?   
      
   Didnt say it was hard, just that whoever wrote it didnt substantiate that   
   claim.   
      
   >>> out-of-pocket costs for psychotherapy and lower insurance   
   >>> coverage for such visits may have driven patients away   
   >>> from seeing therapists in favor of an easy-to-prescribe pill.   
      
   >> And its pills that allowed the closing of so many of the old locked wards   
   for loonys.   
      
   > You mean if we didn't have the pills more people would be locked up?   
      
   Yep.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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