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   From: jonescardiff@btinternet.com   
      
   Rod Speed wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Depression is part of the illness model of behaviour. There's nothing   
   called "depression". It isn't even a fiction.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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