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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   sarge wrote:   
   > On 4 Aug, 05:00, Immortalist  wrote:   
   >> On Aug 3, 7:39 pm, "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? Is it just   
   >> standard social science statistics and if so what is so hard about   
   >> deciding which methods lead to more or less problems?   
   >>   
   >>>> 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?   
   >   
   > I believe he is inadvertantly describing the function of the pills.   
      
   Mindless conspiracy theory.   
      
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