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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   John Jones wrote   
   > 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.   
      
   Easy to claim. Have fun actually substantiating that claim.   
      
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