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Income may influence antidepressant response.

One could conclude the existence of a relationship between socioeconomic circumstances, quality of life and "performance" in the world.

Of course, this is a relationship ROBUSTLY DENIED by the up by the bootstraps (Dubya especially likes that, for everyone else), homo-erotic (Rove, McClellan, Limbaugh), neo-conservative, fundamentalist movement which whole heartedly embraces the notion of a dull-witted, mechanical universe in which men have beards, all is god's will, especially human pain and suffering, and if we manufacture a drug to fix depression, you better take it and be fixed, by god, or be damned.
Or the god him holy high self will fix your broken chemistry if your surrender is abject enough.

Besides, they can charge A LOT for these drugs. Drugs and fundie religion are both highly profitable right wing investments and political strategies.

Big Pharma is a stockmarket wet dream. Even with bad drugs, poisonous drugs that damage children, trigger heart attacks, destroy livers, wipe out brains, even with that, this is highly profitable stuff. Just look at Donny Double Dick Head Rumsfeld and Tamiflu.
No wonder the media is in a relentless cant about bird flu. Think of the profits! Think of the martial law!

This finding about drugs will likely go the way of evolution and global warming, be tossed off as part of the liberal, satanic, sex worshipping, pansy ass agenda to turn Amerikkka into a land of mewling pussies.

A very scary thing has been underway. SSRIs (and other similar drugs) have been pushed like candy hearts at valentine's day, and with very little discussion of serious side effects, which are actually drug effects because they are omnipresent, or do they call that pervasive? And no one ever seems to discuss the fact that THEY DO NOT WORK for what they are prescribed. If you're numb long enough your circumstance will likely change or you will change it, like you would without such drugs, except the meaning wouldn't be stripped from your actions like it is on the drugs, stripped because your emotional core is shut down.

Right, as I was saying. These drugs disconnect people from many of their emotions. In fact, the main thing they appear to do is eradicate any empathy in people who take them (In other words, yes, a pill can turn you into a repiglikkkan.)
Dangerous stuff. And they are very widely prescribed. They even give them to teen-agers for typical teen age angst, which is a normal part of adolescense. Some kids have committed suicide or murder while on them, so disconnected are they from emotional reality, so they've kinda stopped that. But they did it for years. Why? Big, big money. Showers of cash. And don't worry about lawsuits. Bush-Boy is getting those caps in place and those corporate servant judges on the high court.

So they don't necessarily work like they are supposed to. Wow. I could have told you that years ago and never spent a dime on research. And they have tons of side effects and unknown long term effects. As to depression, they don't seem to treat it except in the very rare and exceptional circumstances when a person's body actually does have a chemical imbalance that causes depression, and even then...

Maybe poor people struggling to make ends meet are a little more reality based than Jack Abramoff, who I'd bet anything, because of his dramatic weight gain, is on an antidepressant, so are a little harder to disconnect from reality.

But people love to take these drugs because they don't want to experience their pain. I know TONS of people who take them. The majority of these people live unethical, self indulgent lives with little regard for the feelings of others. I always think dealing with those behaviors would alleviate depression much faster than the pill popping that blanks them out so they don't have to notice how morally impoverished they are.