Word: numb
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...recent book, “Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation,” Yale psychiatrist Charles Barber argues that Americans have come to rely on psychiatric medications to solve even the most benign and normal of emotional ills. He isn’t the first to make this claim. Since the 1993 publication of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well...
...about a third of cases, antipsychotic medication helps to reduce distress, but for many it fails, says Dr. Sara Tai, a researcher at the University of Manchester in the U.K. The drugs also leave many patients feeling exhausted and emotionally numb. Audrey Reid, a 36-year-old from Dundee, Scotland, says medication slowed her thinking and rendered her powerless against bullying by her voices. They made sexually demeaning comments and, when she tried to make coffee, convinced her she was brewing poison...
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What's it like to hear people booing you? -Gary Schubert STROUDSBURG, PA.I've gotten so numb to it. I get more concerned when the cheers and boos aren't as loud. I learned that a long time ago when people were booing Dale Earnhardt. It's O.K. as long as they're making noise...
...becomes a commodity sold as Hollywood movies and Toys “R” Us action figures. The cost of it, the real human cost of it all, is often forgotten.A.L. Kennedy’s “Day” is an apt antidote to the numbing effects of consumerism, statistics, and history. “Day” does what good literature is supposed to do, that is, not allow us to simplify away life. It deposits us in the most complex theater that exists, the human mind, and from there we watch protagonist Alfred...