Active Thinkers For & Against

4. Depression and treatment of it — already discussed

• thormay@yahoo.com
• June 1, 2013June 22, 2013
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Debate top­ic: Are anti­de­pres­sants over­pre­scribed by doc­tors? Are they mask­ing a person’s true prob­lems? What about the seri­ous side effects? Should they be given to chil­dren as young as 5 years old? Can we trust phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies to do their own tri­als? Why is it gov­ern­ments are not pro­vid­ing more mon­ey to rela­tion­ship edu­ca­tion, emo­tion­al intel­li­gence, resilience, and coun­selling to help pre­vent depres­sion.