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I recently watched the movie Prozac Nation. It came out on video and
DVD just days ago and it was based on the true story by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
The movie was about a depressed college girl in the 80's. First off, I love
the 80’s. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s because I’m really a four-year-old
in a fat twenty-four-year-old body. I loved being a kid and I was a kid in the
80’s. I’m rambling now.
The movie was pretty good, but my girlfriend Denise says that the
book was different and better. I should probably read it now. This chick
‘Lizzy’ was jacked up from the get-go. She’d spent her life in therapy since
being a small kid. Can you imagine that? Seeing a shrink for your whole
childhood. So, of course, she was a little screwed up when she got into
college. Eventually she got on medication and was “normal” again. At the
end of the movie there were statistics. It said, ‘300 million prescriptions of
Prozac are filled every day in America.’ *my quote may be wrong, but that’s
not my point*
That’s f---ing ridiculous. Dr. Kavorkian may have been on to
something. If that many people have to use things like Prozac and Zoloft to
live day to day, and they really want to die that bad... hell, I say help ‘em do
it. I don’t agree with anti-depressants but I do realize that there are
people out there that need them. But not 300 million (only in America)! Let
people be people no matter how crazy they are.
America is the world’s lonely housewife when it comes to prescription drugs.
Just sitting at home waiting for the next salesman to come by just to have
someone to talk to. Our people are always looking for a new pill (including
diet pills) to make them a happier person. I hate sitting and watching reruns
of Seinfeld and every five to ten minutes being interrupted by commercials
telling me to consult my doctor to see if I may need this new drug these
people are trying to push on me. Everyone has these symptoms they are
trying to avoid so it makes you say, ‘Hey I feel like that sometimes.’ And then
they come in with the side affects: dizziness, headaches, body aches, etc.,
etc. But my favorite is that every single one is going to give you diarrhea.
What happened to people solving their own problems? I know that ‘forget
about it and it will pass (which is usually my favorite option)’ does not always
work, but you can’t look for someone sitting in a chair listening to you bitch
and moan and giving you ten different pills a day to solve all of your
problems. Hell, these are the same people that criticize the working stiff that
has a drink or two after work. (I have put booze in my other writings, so I had
to do it this time also.) These are the real drug pushers. You wouldn’t see
people pushing marijuana or cocaine on television even if it was legal. You
know why? It’s because the people out there who do actually want these
drugs aren't exactly picking up all of the signals on their antenna, if you
know what I mean. So what people are getting all these legal drugs? The
same damn people!
So, do me a favor. NO! Do yourself a favor and when you see these
commercials call or write your senator and ‘JUST SAY NO!’
Jeremy Tyson
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