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Date: 27 February 2008 18:58:05
Ok, so as a book title it wouldn't have sounded so good, but would it have helped save a generation from itself?(The BBC explains to those who aren't clear on the story here.)
I honestly don't know, like many other people of my generation the happy pills made up part of my life. I spent 5 years as a Seroxat junkie, or rather peroxotine junkie, (because at some point they woke up to the fact Seroxat was just a brand name). Now as I've referred to in the past I have a kind of love hate relationship with that these pills. The manufacturers swore blind they weren't addictive, but I am absolutely sure they were and they could, arguably, have been a contributing factor together with the depression in me not being quite together at times particularly when I first started taking them. Oh and they definately contributed to a general wooly head feeling over those five years. Yet, and this is where the yet comes in they were a crutch that helped in my healing. Now were they just a psychological crutch with no real medical use? I don't / can't buy it. The negative effects as much as the positive ones tell me that these drugs have a use and have more effect than a placebo would.
That said, I wish that the placebo did work. The negative addictive effects of these drugs and the fact so many of my generation have taken them for better or for worse makes me wish the researchers from Hull are right.