400% Rise in Anti-Depressant Use: Can the OWS Uprising Shake Us Out of Our Depression?
Submitted on October 29, 2011
By Bruce E. Levine - October 26, 2011
Why has...antidepressant use skyrocketed? Are the symptoms of what is commonly called depression — helplessness, hopelessness, and immobilization — always evidence of a medical condition? Or is it time to repoliticize a great deal of our despair, and reconsider the old-fashioned antidepressant of political activism?
