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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   John Jones wrote   
   > 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.   
      
   > "Depression" can't be physically substantiated. The term is itself   
   unsubstantiated.   
      
   Easy to claim. Have fun actually substantiating that claim.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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