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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   John Jones 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,... 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.   
   >   
   > The reason for the presence and justification of antidepressant drugs   
   > AT ALL is due to the culturally driven, illness model of behaviour.   
      
   Wrong. Depression has always been around, most used stuff like booze for it   
   previously.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)