Shrimps 'becoming hooked on Prozac that is flushed into the sea'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1292794/Shrimps-hooked-Prozac.html#ixzz0tVz8rFk2


It sounds a tad fishy but shrimps are becoming hooked on Prozac, scientists believe.
They fear the 'happy pills' are tinkering with the creatures' brain chemistry, making them more vulnerable to being eaten by other fish and birds.

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The researchers found that the crustaceans, which are usually happiest when hiding under rocks or clumps of seaweed, were drawn out into the open.

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But, while in people this lifts mood, in shrimps, it draws them towards light - and into harm's way.

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Previous studies have shown that caffeine is released into our waterways after surviving the sewage treatment process. The hormones from the contraceptive Pill and HRT have been blamed for feminising fish, leading to male fish producing eggs.

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what's that saying? a butterfly flaps it's wings and its felt around the world

big pharma stuffs it's pockets with cash and its felt around the world

[Deep13]

1. It's saying that Prozac that is ingested by shrimp makes them susceptible to being eaten. nt

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2. so is prozac a merry go round drug?

into a human body; out into the water; into a shrimp; and then back into a human body.

[fascisthunter]

3. That Has Got to be The Funniest Headline I Have Read in a While

funny, but in reality a sad fact that what we are doing is poisoning an already unbalanced ecosystem. Also another prime example of human irresponsibility.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. The shrimp in the Gulf really NEED that prozac

I mean, when life sucks like that ...

:hi:

[Newest Reality]

5. In our cloud of abstractions, where we fail to see

or differentiate between words and actuality, thoughts and the concrete, the connection between all things, (which may reveal no "thing") is occluded.

A sudden storm of huge proportion will make the connection, the unity, clear so that it is ultimately unavoidable. That's a rather late alarm from slumber in the blind and hurried march of modernity and "progress", though. Our so-called progress proves to be a digression from the inescapable facts of nature itself. Our estrangement from our own nature is what leads us to participate in such ignorance.

When it comes down to it, our nature is nature and so, it is simple, by that realization, to understand and gauge to what degree we have diverged from what we always are. What were you told? It is like seeing that everything around you that you are aware of is also your mind and its state, one does not need to hug the tree, for it is far more intimate and thusly, deep respect for all life replaces platitudes and phases meant to ease the conscience as another self-deluding act born of symbolic, thought-based separation. That separation only has limited, pragmatic value and it has become all-embracing and we support it with our beliefs and actions. The driver is fear and the threat of death is the leverage. From there, the rest ensues.

Nothing can be done about this. That is, there is no self-improvement series of steps towards being what you are as nature. Allowing it to be as it is and perhaps, seeing all the useless noise that enshrouds what is most immediate about it at least gives credence and ground for what may turn-out to be an all or nothing experience.

[ensho]

7. ok - whats done in done

we survive it or we don't

'we' being all living things

[Jennicut]

6. I have been on Prozac before and it was okay but eventually lost it's effectiveness.

I have suffered from depression and major depressive episodes since I was in high school. Prozac is not great but it is not the worst one. I shudder to think if the shrimp were getting addicted to Lexapro. Now that stuff is bad. Makes you feel like an addict. If I didn't take it every day at the exact same time I would get brain zaps, nausea, the sweats, hands shaking. Ick. Needless to say, 3 years on that stuff was too long. When Big Pharma finally comes up with decent anti-depressants I will be so shocked I won't know what to say. And the pills are not happy, they do lift your serotonin levels up but the side effects are terrible. I am just happy the teeth clenching and a dry mouth is all that the current antidepressant I am on gives me.

[Confusious]

9. What are you taking now and how much?

I just started lexapro, 10mg a day. Started with paxil 12 years ago, but it had some, uh, annoying side effects. Switched to Zoloft, but it stopped working.

[Jennicut]

11. I am on Celexa now. 20 mg a day.

I started 14 years ago taking Prozac at the age of 20 but started going into depressive episodes again after I was diagnosed as a diabetic and I had two children back to back. It was just a lot to deal with all at once. So I started the Lexapro. It worked very well but be VERY, very careful to not miss a day on it. It has certain side effects that happen when you miss a day or are even off a few hours. You can get dizzy, sick to your stomach, massive headaches, hands shaking, sweating. Basically, you feel like you are going into withdrawal. Celexa is very similar to Lexapro in how it works, they are made from the same compounds. But Celexa does not seem to leave me with those side effects. I did get some major teeth clenching at night while I was sleeping and woke up with a sore jaw. That seems to have gone away. I do on occasion get a dry mouth but I can deal with that. Also, remember, everyone's reactions to a certain drug is different but Lexapro has a short shelf live in your body, so that can be part of the problem of the withdrawal like symptoms.
Some day, I would love to get off anti-depressants all together. But I just seem to go back to being very depressed whenever I have tried in the past.

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. What a crock of horseshit nt

[Voice for Peace]

10. it makes sense.

when I took prozac many years ago, it made me feel kind of flat and dead. "Whatever, fine." I made many very poor decisions under the influence of that drug. I can see the little shrimp thinking, yeah, whatever, it's all fine.. as the predators move in to gobble them up.