Saturday, May 5, 2012

Growing up drugged

Growing up drugged


For the first time ever, millions of today's adults were raised on psychotropic medications. What does that mean?

My cohort lives with some powerful contradictions. On the one hand, we have grown up with the idea that prolonged sadness, attention problems, obsessions and compulsions, and even shyness are brain diseases that can—and ought—to be treated with medication, just as a bodily disease like diabetes ought to be treated with insulin. The 1990s, sometimes called “the Decade of the Brain,” encompassed a period of unprecedented growth in understanding how the brain works, which generated enormous enthusiasm about the prospects for discovering the underlying mechanisms behind mental illness, enthusiasm that many say was overwrought and premature.


TONY DIGIROLAMO-VERY SLOWLY BUT SURELY THIS STORY ABOUT ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS REACHES DEEPER INTOTHE CULTURE.

"... [P]rolonged sadness, attention problems, obsessions and compulsions, and even shyness are brain diseases", really?

That's changing too with the new DSM 5.

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