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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Day Brown wrote   
   > sarge wrote   
      
   >> Less time to actually deal with one's problems in healthier ways.   
   >> More pushing of these medications by the industry, for example at free   
   screenings, via doctors.   
      
   >> More potential diagnoses every years.  Creating new markets and all that.    
   Society is sicker and people are   
   >> overstimulated and over bombarded and frantic.  Propaganda against talk   
   therapies, against feelings, against people   
   >> who have feelings.   
      
   > Does someone have the study to show that talk therapy is, in fact, effective?   
      
   Nope, doesnt exist, even with just neurotics, let alone schitzophrenics and   
   psychopaths etc.   
      
   > There are innumerable anecdotal reports in literature of some troubled   
   > soul talking to a professor about history, economics, philosophy, or   
   > the meaning of Homer, and what everyone from Plato & Aristotle on up to   
   Gibbon and modern thinkers thot about what   
   > Homer had to say. With the same kind of stabilizing effect on a personality.   
      
   And plenty of those go on to do the most unspeakable obscenitys too.   
      
   > It is arguably, not the talk about emotional problems, but the simple act of   
   attention, that is curative.   
      
   No evidence that it actually cures their problem.   
      
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