Join up the dots?
"It's join up the dots time again... more stories of extreme violence and antidepressant use... When will someone take the possible connection between extreme acts of violence and antidepressant use seriously..."
Yes... But no. More women than men get depressed and are on these medications. When are the media going to "join up the dots" and start pointing out that this is all about men desperately seeking to regain control -- over women and children.
Things can be multicausated, sure, and Big Pharma carries much blame, as does the economy, and all kinds of other bad things.
But with only rare exception these men aren't going berserk indiscriminately. They aren't lighting fire to supermarkets. They aren't blowing up bridges. They aren't setting themselves ablaze in mortgage brokers' offices or on the floors of stock exchanges or in banks in misdirected protests over the economy. They are only occasionally hunting down the bosses who fired them and "going postal".
When inhibitions are loosened, what is said or done still reflects only what already is in the mind as possible. These men are killing their wives and children. Instead of asking what instigated the pulling of a trigger, perhaps it's time to ask why the gun was aimed in the direction that it was in the first place. http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/article994806.ece
Meanwhile... 81 swine flu deaths spark worldwide alert. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6175993.ece?&EMC-Bltn=DDQCKA
