It seems to me that more and more people are on anti depressants now a days. I know more people who are medicated than not. Just to cope with daily lives. Why is that? I remember not long ago you only heard about crazy people taking medication and it was taboo to discuss it. Now it is just routine. Is life more stressful now than 10, 15, 20 years ago?
2006-12-09 05:57:10 · 9 answers · asked by peach 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I know and that is a hard thing to say...they have new classes of medications that they did not have years ago to treat specific kinds of depression...I had been depressed pretty much all my life and did not find the right meds until about 5 years ago...I think there is not the taboo there once was about meds and that is a good thing because if you had any other type of illness, would you not seek treatment?
2006-12-09 06:02:45 · answer #1 · answered by tigerlily_catmom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Could be that medication has become more available, readily prescribed and socially acceptable. It seems to me that we are living in a society of quick fixes. At the same time I do believe that life has become more stressful to a lot of people.
2006-12-09 06:03:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's the doctor's way of treating you without treating you. More women are on these medications. Doctor's don't like to take women's complaints seriously. Years ago if a women suffered from anxiety they gave them nerve pills. Lot's of visits makes doctor's lots of money and when you dope someone up enough they stop complaining and have the euphoric feeling that all is well.
2006-12-09 06:04:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jaded 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It`s a little more stressful than it was years ago.
Think its just an easy way out approach.
I like dealing with my life without being medicated.
2006-12-09 05:59:56 · answer #4 · answered by brock 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, i think it's easy to "think" you have depression. and when you go to a dr. the dr. cant tell u your not depressed. so the easiest thing for them to do is prescribe anti-depressants. life is more stressfull now than 10-20 years ago. we have so much more expectations in life now than we had some years ago. mostly i think it's because we bring it upon ourselves to be succesfull and have "nice things" in life. So we study harder, work harder etc.
2006-12-09 06:06:21 · answer #5 · answered by nina 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
of course is more stressful! the countinous evolution, discovery of new technologies that make our lives easier lead to overpopulation and overpopulation to new technologies, only this vicious circle makes u depressive...
2006-12-09 06:03:38 · answer #6 · answered by Cristina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
too much information to process looking to be numbed out..and drug companies feed off it
2006-12-09 06:04:31 · answer #7 · answered by ohbladee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because people can't deal with their own lives.
it's an easy way out.
2006-12-09 06:03:04 · answer #8 · answered by Jezabel the annoyed cat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
we live in an instant world now.
2006-12-09 06:10:48 · answer #9 · answered by javaluv2002 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋