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...could tell you the capital of pretty much every country. It’s so nerdy, but you end up having these long arguments with people over lunch because everyone here just likes to argue for the sake of it.” Sure enough, Jones is just a normal Harvard kid doing her own over-achieving thing. She checks her email compulsively and relies on bottomless cups of coffee to keep her focused. She pulls all-nighters. She procrastinates by spending too much time in the dining hall and on facebook.com. She wears PJs to breakfast...
...Severe depression does occur in adolescents, and there's a risk of suicide in these cases, says the Institute of Psychiatry's Newman. But she suspects doctors are overprescribing antidepressants across the board. "It's important they distinguish between normal sadness and clinical depression," she says. "We all need to feel sad sometimes. We don't want a society in which people run off to get prescribed rather than feel normal emotions." While Parker acknowledges that sometimes people who don't need SSRIs receive them, he doesn't think the drugs should be confined to those with severe depression. "Anxious...
...Immediately before her encounter with psychiatry, Rebekah Beddoe was a normal girl having a rough trot. By the time of her inspired decision three years later to take herself off her medications, she'd been diagnosed with five separate mental disorders and drugged to within an inch of her life. Heavy doses of an antipsychotic have left her a diabetic and her left arm is a canvas of self-inflicted scars. Somehow, her family remains intact. She married Jemima's father, Nigel, in the midst of her trials and the three of them are going strong. She can find...
...that in countries like Australia there's still a multitude of people with undiagnosed depression should be considered in that context. These people are "not clinically depressed, anyway," he says. "The drug companies are setting forth an unrealistic vision of what it is to be human. They're defining normal stresses and worries as pathological, and the only reason they're doing it is that it leads to more business...
...thousands of others-men and women and children who simply wanted to enjoy a pizza or catch a bus or celebrate Passover,? she said. ?And the Palestinian people have suffered, too. They too have mourned the loss of innocent life. They too have been deprived of days that are normal, filled with peace and opportunity...