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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   sarge wrote   
   > Rod Speed  wrote   
   >> sarge wrote   
   >>> Immortalist  wrote   
   >>>> 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.   
      
   > It was your functional description.   
      
   You're lying, again.   
      
   > Honestly, I do not think it is all that is going on.  But it is a component.   
      
   Easy to claim. Have fun actually substantiating that claim.   
      
   > One that many people go along with themselves.   
      
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