Prozac World!

[Milo]

Opinions and stories on the pervasiveness of sports enhancement and legal stonerism.

It scares the hell out of me to think how many of our managerial class are now perminently medicated. No matter how much medical verbiage they cloak this in, a huge slab of our population is making important decisions and doing hazardous work, stoned. It allows them to put up with working conditions that break those who aren't and perpetuates a drugocracy. It's also long past the point when any athletes, outside of dressage, aren't cranked either, and in dressage the horse is!
It appears too that nothing will stop this. It's the new normal and the drugs will continue to 'improve', driven by the massive demand. Nobody will condemn it, as it's all done to help various 'conditions' often legit, but often contrived, so that people can get athletic scholarships or stay in a job they hate.
Can we stop it? Should we?

[AzariLoveIran]

[Milo]

[Tinker]

[Milo]

[noddy]

the definition of normal is "doesnt intimidate me".

[Tinker]

[Milo]

[noddy]

[Milo]

[noddy]

yes, i did read Dune - many moons ago, but didnt get far into the series before i got bored with it.

[Tinker]

noddy I agree with you. In my family everyone tried anti-depressants except for the cause of the misery in my family.

[noddy]

[Tinker]

[AzariLoveIran]

[Torchwood]

I run on nicotine because:

- as befits a denizen of these various forums, it is olde worlde (something out of a fifties film) and deeply unfashionable
- it is the modern Prohibitionists first target. "First they came for the smokers, but I said nothing because I did not smoke. Then they came for the binge drinkers, but I said nothing because I did not binge drink. Now they have an obesity programme"
- having reached a mature age more or less intact, there is that Russian Roulette kick of having run through five empty barrels.
- it is more addictive than heroin, apparently. The surrogates don't work (patches? heartbeat goes through the roof) . On cold turkey, I turn into a facsimile of Pastaneta on a bad day.
- amazed how well one does in life with such pathetic will power.
- I would lecture others on don't follow my example (wife just as bad) but my sons do it so much more eloquently (they have not touched the weed in their lives, well, not that weed anyway)
- unlike drunks or druggies, don't do much harm to others. Passive smoking risk overstated, and can't do it in others presence indoors outside the home anyway these days. Even save the NHS money, as it is the healthy clean living ones who cost when they slowly fall apart in the their late 80s.
- Inshallah.
-helps concentration to write long winded pretentiously pseudo-intellectual posts on internet forums.

[I am ST]

Happiness is overated. I'm personally addicted to misery.

I've always been at my best when on the verge of tears, suffering from sleep deprivation, smart-phone buzzing with a new request every 15 minutes, and twelve looming deadlines. Better then crack, I tell you.

I follow this up with no-plastic-objects-allowed candle-lit home-made dinners and long weekends of reading, with a semi-enforced ban on electronics of any kind.

However, considering how utterly insane most people I know really are, I think putting a large percentage of the population on drugs can't make it any worse, really.

[Tinker]

[crashtech]

All these mind-altering chemicals, are they not just early forays into transhumanism? The desire seems pervasive, let's make ourselves a better person through science.

[noddy]

[Caskhades]

I hate Prozac. I knew a couple of very spunky girls that I would see every now and again. Both of them have started taking Prozac-like drugs recently.

Judging by that small sample, I'd say Prozac REALLY drives down libido. This is why I hate it.

[AzariLoveIran]

[Tinker]

[Milo]