Mental Meds not frivolous.

AuthorBarmeyer, Susan
PositionFROM READERS - Letter to the Editor

I always enjoy reading "Matters of Scale," and your most recent one titled "Aid and Comfort" was no exception--until I reached the bottom where the amount of money Americans spend on various luxuries or frivolities was listed. I was appalled to see that one line included "antipsychotics." An enlightened magazine such as World Watch should know that mental illness is biochemical in nature--not something that a person can just "get over." For people with psychoses, medication is an absolute essential. Without it, their lives can be living hell.

Antidepressants are also included in the...

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