Prozac - "the only light at the end of an increasingly black tunnel of despair"

[Liberal_in_LA]

Dark moods?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1107263/Who-says-Im-barking-Meet-owners-worried-state-mind-pets-Prozac.html

Who says I'm barking! Meet the owners so worried about the state of mind of their pets they put them on 'Prozac'

By Diana Appleyard
Last updated at 10:12 PM on 06th January 2009

For Amber Bower, life with anti-depressants had become a reality - the only light at the end of an increasingly black tunnel of despair.

Her family readily admit that the medication has helped control her dark moods, increasing panic attacks and neurosis - and bought them back the one they love.

‘We’ve been quite open about her treatment, and the reason that she needed the “Prozac”. There isn’t even a stigma about antidepressants any more,’ insists Elizabeth Bower.

[Taverner]

1. If we're going all Mad Max, at least give us our meds!

Seriously!

[tosh]

2. Yeah, seriously.

[liberalmuse]

3. Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids or pets.

Anthropomorphizing your pets is truly messed up. Animals do very well as long as self-involved humans with extreme personality disorders stay the fuck away from them.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

4. I hope that's not their new marketing campaign.

As for putting pets on antidepressants, I disagree vociferously. We have a vaguely nominal idea of how this class of drug acts on a human brain and their short-term and long-term effects. Who knows what might happen to that dog?

Which also begs the philosophical question if dogs (or any non-human) can despair. I'm not touching that one.

[Deja Q]

5. Uh, there isn't as much of a stigma -- FOR HUMAN BEINGS!

For pets, there is no stigma and never has been. Why? BECAUSE IT'S A BLOODY STUPID THING TO DO!! (never mind free money for the vet because you're such a damn fool in the first place!)

Oh well. Pass the salad. I recently killed my pet lettuce leaf and want to make the final moments with it special.

[Hannah Bell]

6. when i'm sick & can't walk her, my old dog sleeps. when i walk her, she's

lively as a pup.

Forget the drugs, stupid.