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acroyearThe Uncredible Hallq: Depression and the definition of disease
"[a Slate article on depression as a disease] ends by mentioning the influence pharmaceutical companies have on our ideas of the ideal. We may be heading for a world where our idea of the perfect mind is every bit as controlled by corporations as our idea of the perfect body."
seen all of the shiny happy people holding hands out there? even more so than car commercials, cosmetics, or the music industry, the drug companies are definitely the ones out there in the forefront of telling us what "normal" is, all the things that "everybody else is doing and you aren't".
all i have to say (to the #1 image in most commercials i've seen so far) is i haven't thrown a frisbee in about 8 years.
and i think that's normal.
"[a Slate article on depression as a disease] ends by mentioning the influence pharmaceutical companies have on our ideas of the ideal. We may be heading for a world where our idea of the perfect mind is every bit as controlled by corporations as our idea of the perfect body."
seen all of the shiny happy people holding hands out there? even more so than car commercials, cosmetics, or the music industry, the drug companies are definitely the ones out there in the forefront of telling us what "normal" is, all the things that "everybody else is doing and you aren't".
all i have to say (to the #1 image in most commercials i've seen so far) is i haven't thrown a frisbee in about 8 years.
and i think that's normal.
