June 13, 2006

“Celebrities sell sickness”: Drug Bust by Alan Cassels

a friend posted a bulletin at myspace, by Alan Cassels.

here’s the intro:

There’s a new mania and I’ve got it. At least, I think I’ve got it.

I seem to have all the symptoms for someone whose mania is seeing diseases everywhere. It’s like “all illness, all the time.”

I’ve got “disease mongering mania.” Call it DMM for short.

All around me I hear voices chanting the mantra, “You’re sick, don’t suffer in silence, see your doctor, get treatment. You’re sick, don’t suffer in…” etc.

These same voices seem to be coming from all kinds of unique places: television and magazine ads, the wife of a former prime minister, even from the pages of a medical journal as two psychiatrists battle it out.

Ironically, my current form of DMM seems to be largely emanating from the makers of powerful drugs for schizophrenia – a coincidence, that? – and they all seem to be saying the same thing: It may not be depression; it could be bipolar disorder.”

Full article at Common Ground