Will Self made a very good radio programme on this topic. He didn't suggest, as I have in previous posts, that the way we have organised our society is not healthy - too stressful, too competitive, not enough community activity - and therefore we are unable to cope emotionally with living in it without medication, but he did mention Aldous Huxley, so probably the thought had crossed his mind.
He talked to people who think this medication saved their lives, psychologists who prescribe it and those who don't, and one mum who lost her daughter to suicide although she (the daughter) was on Prozac, and people who think placebos work just as well!
Go here for the programme - bbc 4 Will Self has a great voice and he talks to people who should be experts in the subject - but it won't be available for longer than a week I think.
He mentioned a film called Prozac Nation that sounded very interesting.
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