antidepressants.
nasty little things take away the highs and lows and leave you bland and lethargic and apathetic.
It's mentioned in chapter three.
Gotta love Hooch's intuition. :wb:What David said. I think we discussed it elsewhere...
EDIT: just did a quick google search, and ATD was a fund for the 'totally disabled' in California during the '60s and '70s. I don't think that's it.
They were, but not in the volume of today, Sixties and Seventies it was Benzodiazepines that were being overused, highly addictive and over prescribed.Nobody was taking antidepressants in the 70s when Women was written...]
Thorazine is an antipsychotic with a tranquillizing effect, if you're not psychotic... and I don't think you are, at all chronic:) then it would make you want to sleep or keep you out of mischief a while.Prozac and that sort of antidepressant are pretty new. I think hoochmonkey is talking about major antidepressants like thorazine. When I was a drug-seeking youth (aka the good old days) I once took one of these only to end up feeling exactly like hoochmonkey describes... deadened and just wishing I could go to sleep until it wore off.
Benzodiazepines are not antidepressants.
Well, at least you seem to have conviction about what you don't know.Nobody was taking antidepressants in the 70s when Women was written. I believe "ATD" refers to anti-thyroid drugs. "April was on ATD and fat." A side effect of these drugs is weight gain.
Benzodiazepines are not antidepressants.
Massively overprescribed, particularly to women, but as early as the mid sixties their negative effects were being attacked culturally, with books like Jacquelin Susann's Valley of the dolls and The Rolling Stones song "Mother's Little Helper" long before Roche (Valium) and others, along with GP's started to put the brakes on prescribing so easily.They were, but not in the volume of today, Sixties and Seventies it was Benzodiazepines that were being overused, highly addictive and over prescribed.
Whether they actually are or are not, they've been prescribed as such for years.I didn't say they were antidepressants.
Read more carefully. SSRIs and SNRIs are newer antidepressants than TCAs and she was talking about how most of the studies were comparing benzos with TCA's even though the newer antidepressants (SSRIs and SNRIs) are prescribed more often."While there has been a shift in recent years toward using such newer antidepressants as SSRIs and SNRIs as first-line treatments for anxiety disorders instead of benzodiazepines..."
I'm not suggesting that antidepressants are necessarily "the same type of drug" as Xanax or Valium. Many classes of drugs (from a chemical structure standpoint) can have therapeutic indications for various conditions. No one type of drug is an antidepressant; nor are Xanax or Valium necessarily efficacious against a single condition (italics indicate that they may be most efficacious against a single condition, but as an illustrative example, many drugs have therapeutic benefit in a variety of conditions).If you had you would surely not be suggesting they are the same type of drug as Xanax or Valium.