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   From: jonescardiff@btinternet.com   
      
   Rod Speed wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   That's easy too. Language is public, meaning is public. But depression   
   doesn't have a meaning, even if it is publicly put out. Each person   
   knows this for himself.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)