I have 2 more pages to write in order to finish my sixth draft of my current novel. But before I do that I want to comment on an interesting blog that links the widespread use of antidepressants with the current financial crisis: ie too happy, too silly = irrational borrowing and lending. See this:
: “antidepressants cause the mortgage crisis”
In 2006 227 million prescriptions for antidepressants were issued in the U.S. and over 31 million in Britain. These are also the countries hardest hit by subprime mortgages. Germany? Issued 1/5th as much as Britain. Banks? Much better shape.
So it seems that the medications taken to bring greater sanity (one would presume since they are psychiatric meds) have actually led to crazy decisions, and therefore instability, anxiety and fearfulness.
Maybe more tea (with a friend) and fewer pills is in order.
[...] the brunt of the recent financial collapse (and in the last decade have been the highest consumers of antidepressants). But Canada, though contributing proportionately less, is also involved in the unremitting mess in [...]
[...] considered weakness instead of strength and cheerfulness is the highest good. Hence the pandemic of antidepressants; hence the cheerful applauding of a financial bubble that has put the world into a deep hole; hence [...]