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As someone who works with clinically depressed individuals, I take offense
at your post below. The SSRIs (Prozac and Prozac-like drugs) are a
God-send for many folks with major depression. Clearly you have not had
the experience of interacting with a family member, friend, or patient
living the hell of major depression.
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Judi A. Kessler RN, PhD
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0510
La Jolla, CA 92093-0510 USA
(858) 534-4147 or (858) 534-4503
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, J. Walter Plinge wrote:
> News Update
> The Wide Wide World O Prozac
>
> Dear Diary, 8/11/00
> The BBC Radio's World Buiness Report told the , ahhh� World, today about how Prozac
> is about to lose its patent protection and a mass of cheap generics will soon be
> let loose on an unsuspecting world. It's is a topic worth pondering. Could it
> be, wondered the
> announcer to a cohort at Lehman Brothers, that Prozac is actually a major player
> in this so called endless economic boom the US has been claiming since, what�
> 1912? (Yeah;
> 1929 was just a market adjustment.)
>
> The Lehman Sister, not brother, as claimed, on the other end of the line was
> stoned enough
> to maintain a semblance of lucidity but obviously not so stoned that she would
> agree to
> such a logical observation. "People don't take Prozac to become overly happy,"
> she said,
> "they take it so they can continue to function normally."
>
> Of course. That's just the point, isn't it? The GM people, asked to fire 10,000
>people
> including themselves might have become an unruly mob if not for legal chemicals.
> The Bell
> Tel people who were asked to ax 40,000 jobs might have had a use for a legal
> chemical that
> would allow them to continue their sado-masochistic activities while seeming to
>"function
> normally." Can it be coincidental that the star of Prozac was ascending at the
> same time as
> the star of "structural adjustment programs" at the IMF? Our Lehman Sister
> disagreed; she
> appeared to be functioning normally.
>
> Makes you wonder though, doesn't it? Was Maggie Thatcher on drugs when she proclaimed
> Pinochet was "Brittain's Friend?" Or is she that way normally? And what about
> Pinochet? If
> Prozac was available for distribution in 1973 could he not have pushed the
> slaughter rate
> from the low thousands into the low millions? If Proazac was available then,
> would we not
> have a Pinochet Day in the US, just like Christmes? Oh, the missed opportunities!
>
> We have already seen in the 60s what people on LSD, mushrooms and pot do. They
> take to the
> streets and stop wars. They kick dictators out of office. So what can we expect
> when the
> price of Prozac drops from $1 to 10� a hit? If Nike workers can afford Prozac
> will they ask
> for a wage cut? Will China and India open their currency to the Wall Street
> Casino? Will the
> Brazilians start giving away the last of their trees just to get rid of them? My
> guess is:
> YES INDEED!
>
> I think the economic boom is just starting. I think we are going to see
> legislation in a
> coupla years that will put Prozac into the drinking water of "chronicly
> depressed" nations.
> I think that the human central nervous system is mis-wired and there is a CURE
> at hand. The
> financial collapse of 2001 is just going to be a minor adjustment.
>
> Happy Dreams and take your medication,
> JWP
>
>
