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Gail Bell
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In the second Quarterly Essay of 2005, Gail Bell investigates
Australia's depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a
million Australians now take antidepressant drugs? This is a fresh,
frank and independent look at the depression culture and the move
to medicalise sadness. Bell examines how the prescription culture
operates, scrutinising the role of big drug companies and GPs and
talking to those who take - and don't take - the new
antidepressants, from anxious students to lonely retirees. She
finds that drug companies have invested billions in an effort to
simplify a profoundly complex mental condition, and that along the
way ordinary problems of living have been transformed into medical
conditions. She also finds that we, the consumers, have been happy
to get on board- the vocabulary of depression - 'serotonin',
'bipolar', 'genetic predisposition' - rolls off our tongues as if
each of us had studied it at medical school. In this freeranging
and elegant essay, Bell takes the pulse of Australia's 'worried
well' and looks at alternative cures for what ails us. 'If the
number of prescriptions truly reflects the numbers who are
depressed, then we may need to re-design our tourist brochures. The
sun-bronzed Aussie optimist with his no-worries attitude to
calamity might be an outdated caricature.' - Gail Bell, The Worried
Well
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