You obviously don't have the first clue about mental illness and how the drugs for depression work...

Stick to what you know!

Just for the record, Mr Magoo, the people who make the drugs, and the psychiatrists themselves don't know for sure how a lot of these medications actually work. In the case of drugs used to treat schizophrenia, for example, all they have is a dopamine HYPOTHESIS. You're too short sighted. A lot of them are tested on animals, which of course is a complete waste of time. Thanks for posting this item, Pirate. Mr Magoo needs to get a life, and so do I.

I know already how much psychopharmacology is down to throwing shit at a wall. I meant the effect of the drug on the person= they don't turn people into smiley drones. The poster is misinformed on that account; my whole point. No you going to call me a liar on that point?

I already have a life.

Does Mr Magoo really believe that a lot of anti-psychotic drugs are not completely ZOMBIFYING? Take Olanzapine (or one of the other standard ones that psychiatrists dish out) for a few months, and see if you change your mind, Magoo. Or you may not have much of a mind left to change. Trust your GP, trust Big Pharma, and you will become the living dead for as long as they can get away with it. This is a means of social control, using drugs on people. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE MAGOO?

The point I was trying to aim at is that 'the state' could try to misuse such drugs and
technology to gradually create a far more docile and conformist society.
In the USA, drugs are already used to 'control' hyperactive kids or those supposedly
'diagnosed' as wayward.

I am well aware that current and most past pyschiatric drugs don't make people 'happy'
as such. I was on them for 20 years ! and they only really 'worked' for the first few months.
I felt better over all once i'd gotten off them (after 6-7 months of withdrawals- not nice)
However, improvements in them might be used by some states to legitamise further
drugging and not just for true mental health problems.

Dont forget the old Soviet Union used to put dissenters in gulags and mental wards
and then drugged them cos to be against that sort of socialism was considered disordered.

Why not come round and we can discussss things like gentlemen over a drink and a meal, Mr Magoo? I've got a nice bottle of chianti in the fridge, and some tasty f-f-f-fava beans on the boil. All you need to do is bring your own meat!

"So, now we can all be happy little- conformist- bunnies..."

Your words note mine.

"happy little- conformist- bunnies..."

Total tosh. I don't know anyone who took drugs for mental illness and became a Stepford drone. To re-iterate my point once more.