Depressing?
April 24th 2008 10:57
I see that Orble has started adding the pictures that bloggers include with their posts onto the home page, and down the side columns. Certainly it brightens up things, and that can’t be bad. I’m sure some of the pictures will attract readers to blogs they wouldn’t normally check out, particularly blogs that feature well-endowed young ladies, like the one that’s at the top of the popular posts list at present.
Apropos of nothing to do with the above, I also see that there’s a marked increase in articles about whether anti-depressants actually have any effect, or whether they’re merely a form of placebo. Well, if they’re a placebo, they do a pretty good job. Either that or the human mind has an infinite capability for fooling itself. I’ve been a recipient of drug treatment in the form of anti-depressants more than once – it was better than dealing with the panic attacks I was getting in the middle of the night – and I well remember that as soon as I knew I was back on them (I’d had a short course several before for a similar problem) I felt much better, even though officially anti-depressants aren’t supposed to work for a couple of weeks!
But on the distaff side of this debate is the idea that perhaps when young people take anti-depressants they tend more towards suicide than previously. Or is it that the reason they’ve gone onto anti-depressants was because they were having suicidal feelings anyway? It’s a strange debate which obviously hasn’t got sorted out yet. As always, the media gets in on the act before the scientists have even half-developed their theories, let alone proved them.
But on the distaff side of this debate is the idea that perhaps when young people take anti-depressants they tend more towards suicide than previously. Or is it that the reason they’ve gone onto anti-depressants was because they were having suicidal feelings anyway? It’s a strange debate which obviously hasn’t got sorted out yet. As always, the media gets in on the act before the scientists have even half-developed their theories, let alone proved them.
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