Exactly 25 years ago began selling the drug Prozac in the world. He became the first antidepressant in the world, which was designed to save people from the blues, and more - it has generated enormous industry of medicines, struggling with "depression". His own father, and many call this disease, of which three decades ago, few have heard.
Originally developed Prozac as a means of temporarily lowering the pressure. However, in clinical trials the drug revealed a much more interesting effect: many patients it significantly improves mood. As formulated later, the drug stabilized the mental state of people suffering from mild depression.
Developer drugs, the Swiss company Eli Lilly Vostok, immediately changed the marketing strategy for the product: it became known as "happiness pill" cure for a bad mood, and suicidal tendencies. The trend was supported by the Hollywood stars who have been unanimously recognized that taking antidepressants in order to overcome another "life crisis".
Prozac nation
The degree of enthusiasm for the new tablets can be measured by the product of the writer and journalist Elizabeth Vurtsel - novel "Prozac Nation," which quickly became a bestseller and later made into a movie. Vurtsel long time she took Prozac and described some of the same symptoms from his long-term use, that most of the other patients. In particular, it is known that while Prozac and muffles anxiety, and mental pain, after a while it makes a person insensitive and joyous moments of life. "Gradually the consumer Prozac turns into a vegetable, unable to feel at all any emotions", - she said.
Most antidepressants - a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, which are able to artificially delay the neurotransmitter in the brain as long as possible, causing a feeling of euphoria. Many researchers believe that the lack of it in the brain of this substance leads to depression and causes to see the world in gray and black tones.
Action Prozac over time leads to serious mental disorders: get used to the drug, the level of serotonin synthesized by the body decreases, and the patient is forced to move to another, often much stronger drug. And so it is with almost all antidepressants, including the latest.
Medications recommended to regularly change: studies show that 30% of drugs to help patients stop after a week of use. However, there are other details: A 2008 experiment at the Department of Psychology at the University of English city of Hull has shown that patients suffering from depression, almost as well to respond to placebo, as well as on real antidepressants. British researchers concluded that serious medication makes sense to use only people who suffer severe clinical form of depression. Moreover, the side effects of antidepressants can be extremely difficult: blurred vision, or a set of weight loss syndrome
Antidepressants - one of the best selling types of drugs in the world, their annual turnover exceeds $ 20 billion market is growing.. As the number of mentally ill people.
This is the name of the most popular in the world today antidepressants. In general their range of thousands of different items. Antidepressants - the best-selling type of medication in the world, its annual turnover exceeds 20 billion dollars.. The market is constantly growing. As well as the number of mentally ill people. According to US physicians in the United States today, 25% of the population suffers from some or other mental disorders of varying severity. A major impact of depression is subject to the order of 20% of Britons (data Mental Health Foundation).
Dr. David Healy, one of Ireland's best-known psychologists, claims that antidepressants often lead to a deterioration in mood and in the long run may even provoke suicide. It is also believed that these drugs lead to an increase in violence in those countries where they are popular. According to Healey, some people really like are needed because patients are able to return to normal life - but the craze antidepressants leads to a much more disastrous problems than people think. Of particular concern to the doctor is the fact that these drugs are prescribed for hyperactive children, who with age have become dependent on them.
Prozac and his team have a negative impact on the environment: from penetrating sewage into lakes and rivers, they are serious about changing the behavior of the local fauna. Under the influence of stable chemical compounds the fish starts to behave very aggressively, ecologists from the University of Umea say who published their findings in the latest issue of Science. Some psychologists believe that antidepressants can trigger antisocial behavior and people taking them.
The worst thing is that antidepressants should be drunk only to people who suffer from clinical depression, and to distinguish it from a prolonged bad mood psychiatrists often can not ..