And while the drugs have been used safely for years in people with depression, there’s no long-term data on their use in healthy women with healthy brains.I'll have you know that I'm quite healthy, thank you very much! It should have read - there's no long-term data on their use in healthy women not suffering from depession. Seriously. Did the author really mean to say that people who are depressed are sick? Is it really a sickness? I do not believe that I am sick, my internal chemistry is just different than some people who like to call themselves normal. But I function, I work, I am productive, I contribute.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Irritating quote of the day
I was reading an article at the NYTimes on antidepressant use to treat menopausal hot flashes (not that I'm anywhere near there, but it's good to keep an eye out on what will come next), and found a supremely irritating sentence:
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Oh my god, "women with healthy brains"? What in heaven's name are they thinking?
I agree, my brain is perfectly healthy. The situations we're put in are unhealthy, that's what!!!
You know how they do rat models of depression? They take "healthy" rats and then feed them at random intervals and subject them to random electric shocks. Turns out that the unpredictability of life and pain will make all rats depressed. Then after they do that, they test the effects of antidepressants, etc., on curing their depression. They're HEALTHY, but their environments are not. It's got nothing to do with the quality of their brains!!!!
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