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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   sarge wrote:   
   > On 5 Aug, 23:37, "Rod Speed"  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > The onus is on the other side.   
      
   Like hell it is with that sort of sweeping claim.   
      
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