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Happiness

Suppose you were unhappy. Suppose you had a doctor’s appointment for your annual check-up and while you were sitting there half-naked on an examining table, you said, “I just feel kind of down lately.”

I’m feeling kind of blue lately.

Life just seems to suck lately.

I’m not very happy.

We can’t have that, can we? We can’t have people going around not being happy. It cannot be allowed or accepted. It is not normal. It is untenable. It is unsustainable.

We cannot say, “Yeah? Life does suck sometimes.” No, we cannot.

We say that little qualifier– “sometimes” because we can’t bear to say, “life sucks”.

Life sucks, and then you die.

So if you aren’t happy, we will prescribe you a drug. Why? Because that is best solution to the problem of life? No.

To make life good, we would have to find someone to love you, make you rich, make you safe and healthy, and make our cities livable.

That would be too hard to do. So we will zoloft you. We will prozac or paxil you instead.

There really is no clearer indication of just how pagan our society has become. It doesn’t matter what you think is going to happen after this life is over. None of us, Christian or non-Christian, is going to accept a life in this world that is not happy.

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S.S.R.I.’s And Teenage Mental Health

British Drug regulators just announced that doctors must stop writing prescriptions for an entire generation of anti-depressant drugs for depressed children under 18.

After reviewing 11 different studies of the effects of these drugs, including Paxil, Zoloft, and others, on children under 18, they came to the conclusion that the risk of harm outweighed the potential benefits.

According to Mother Jones, more than 50% of the studies performed on these drugs have shown that they have no greater beneficial effect on people than placebos do.

But it’s hard to convince a doctor with scientific evidence. I’m only kidding. No, I’m not. Dr. Flemming Graae of Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., says he has treated more than 2,000 children with S.S.R.I.’s. (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) and, he says, not a single one of them tried to commit suicide because of the drugs.

That’s a really strange statement to make. Didn’t any of the 2,000 ever try to commit suicide? If not, that’s remarkable.  If any of them did, how do you know it wasn’t because of the S. S. R. I.?

The Heritage Foundation reports that about 14% of all sexually active teenage girls and 5% of all the others attempt suicide. Just about every other study reports that some teenagers try to commit suicide.

These are truly wonder drugs if the results are that good. Or Dr. Graae’s statistics are wonderfully contrived.

Of course, the Heritage Foundation is trying to prove to you that girls that have sex are unhappy, miserable, and suicidal, while girls who don’t have sex are contented, smart, and rich. So don’t have sex. Or learn to do unbiased studies. The Heritage Foundation thinks you are still gaining weight because you don’t eat enough diet cookies.

I suspect that doctors are willing to defend S.S.R.I.’s because they give them something to give people who are desperately desperate. Since you can’t give them a happy life with healthy peer relationships and a morally satisfying profession, you give them a pill.