The medicalization of depression has proven to be even more profitable for pharmaceutical companies, whose sales of anti depressant medications have soared.

This suggests that physiological processes underlying depression the ones that may also lead to structural changes in the brain are not being completely arrested, and thus that a new generation of anti depressant medications is urgently needed.

A recent study has shown that the anti depressant Citalopram can change the responses of individuals to hypothetical moral dilemma scenarios. Individuals given the drug were less willing to sacrifice an individual to save the lives of several others.

And you can imagine what that would be like, right, in your own life and I know this is true of some of you if you were drinking all day, and then you switched from a depressant to a stimulant in your life, you would have better ideas.