Artificial Happiness

Jun 26, 2006 07:14

crossposted from a comment in this thread in mommyhood's lj, in response to the following remark:

...when he went to med school, he was taught that if a woman comes into his office complaining of more than one symptom, he should just prescribe an anti-depressant.

There's a review in 6-24's WSJ of Artificial Happiness by Dr. Ronald Dworkin, an MD ( ( Read more... )

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tehuatzi June 27 2006, 03:12:29 UTC
Yeah, it's like the church sign Sarah saw that said, We're too blessed to be depressed! *hurl*

The thought that came to me during that thread was, "I need to go back and read the Puritans again." I'm a lot more influenced by the "happy-is-good, sad-is-bad" mentality now than I was ten or fifteen years ago. Spending some time with John Owen should be just the ticket.

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