PBS 'Medicating Normal': WETA On Now

[appalachiablue]

- Trailer, 'Medicating Normal.' 2019. For more information, including links to the scientific evidence base for the statements in this video, as well as further resources, please visit our website: http://medicatingnormal.com/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Medicating normal happens in many other areas.

For instance, "normal" blood pressure has been lowered to the point where essentially every adult would need to be on blood pressure medication.

[Phoenix61]

2. I couldn't agree more.

We have pathologized too many normal human experiences. Sometimes medication is the right answer, post-party depression comes to mind, but not forever. Grief, loss, trauma are all painful and working through them is difficult. I think too many therapists are uncomfortable with people in pain and rush to medication before trying anything else.

[thucythucy]

3. I'm sure you meant "post partum" depression

though I've been known to get bummed at the end of a party.

That said, I agree with your post.

Bergman's last film "Fanny and Alexander" had a scene where a young woman who has just lost her husband is grieving. She literally spends the entire scene circling her husband's casket screaming at the top of her lungs. This takes place in Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century. Down through the ages people in mourning would "rend" their clothes, tear their hair, shriek and weep... Today someone doing any of that would be medicated for the sake of decorum.

[Phoenix61]

4. Damn spell check. nt

[thucythucy]

5. I know, me too.

I hate the damn thing.

Best wishes--

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Post party depression was exactly what I was afflicted by

When January 20, 2017 rolled around.

[Phoenix61]

7. +1 nt