I don't disagree with the reasons for it becoming a best-seller - and I do agree with you; if someone finds an anti-depressive effective, great, but let's treat them as tools rather than solutions - but it horrifies me to find out that it's a bestseller, because that term, to me, conjures up the idea that a brand rather than a result is what is being sold. Which is part of your point, at least - that it's overprescribed because it's being marketed as a solution.
I am pretty horrified by the branding of anything, though.
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Date: 2008-02-28 05:03 pm (UTC)I am pretty horrified by the branding of anything, though.