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Mother's little helper

Posted by beckett2 on October 29, 2020, at 14:27:08

A Rouche Valium advert from the 70's

https://images.procon.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/valium-1970-2.gif

Link to the NYT article (if you haven't burned through your paywall)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/style/am-i-drinking-too-much.html?action=click&block=more_in_recirc&impression_id=cd4a3831-1a19-11eb-ab86-3ffd19edcde1&index=4&pgtype=Article®ion=footer

 

Re: Mother's little helper

Posted by rjlockhart37 on October 29, 2020, at 17:10:20

In reply to Mother's little helper, posted by beckett2 on October 29, 2020, at 14:27:08

lol yeah miltown was a real big thing in the 50s for housewives

today like you said winemoms are popular, because they don't hand out as many benzos as they used too back the in the day

i've been on diazepam it is kinda calming, and sedates to help nuerosis symptos. I call them 'valium days' when your just taking valium and your relaxed all day

 

Re: Mother's little helper

Posted by undopaminergic on October 30, 2020, at 1:22:06

In reply to Mother's little helper, posted by beckett2 on October 29, 2020, at 14:27:08

> A Rouche Valium advert from the 70's
>
> https://images.procon.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/valium-1970-2.gif
>
> Link to the NYT article (if you haven't burned through your paywall)
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/style/am-i-drinking-too-much.html?action=click&block=more_in_recirc&impression_id=cd4a3831-1a19-11eb-ab86-3ffd19edcde1&index=4&pgtype=Article®ion=footer
>

My life is almost exactly the same (at least so far) during the pandemic. Eg. I read, write, use the computer, and take long walks.

In any case, Valium wouldn't help me. I'd rather have a stimulant.

-undopaminergic

 

Re: Mother's little helper

Posted by Christ_empowered on October 31, 2020, at 1:49:45

In reply to Mother's little helper, posted by beckett2 on October 29, 2020, at 14:27:08

i enjoy looking at old psych drug ads. wanna see some atrocious examples of corporate greed + medicalization of feminine angst? check out the old school Dexamyl ads. funny? I suppose. In the same way that one can offer up an uncomfortable laugh at the days of lobotomies...

while the legal system + mental health, inc. join forces to routinely force high dose neuroleptics on low(ish) status people, all over. moving on...


I kinda sorta have to say, though, that focusing on the ladies prevents a more thorough deconstruction. Even in the old ads for Benzedrine, etc., men -- sometimes men who had lost their (money making) role in society to depression or what have you -- make a more than occasional appearance.

good post. :-)

 

Re: Mother's little helper

Posted by sigismund on October 31, 2020, at 14:02:25

In reply to Mother's little helper, posted by beckett2 on October 29, 2020, at 14:27:08

A nice article, perceptive patient analysis (of Jan). Back before it could cause psychologically dependance, way before it became addictive.
The wife of the inventor of chlordiazepoxide would never let him take it.

 

Re: Mother's little helper

Posted by Hugh on November 2, 2020, at 11:19:57

In reply to Mother's little helper, posted by beckett2 on October 29, 2020, at 14:27:08

I hadn't heard of Miltown before. I like the vintage photos and advertisements in this article:

https://www.topic.com/the-magic-bullet

 

Re: Mother's little helper

Posted by beckett2 on November 5, 2020, at 20:57:15

In reply to Re: Mother's little helper, posted by Hugh on November 2, 2020, at 11:19:57

"According to historian David Herzberg, author of the 2009 book Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac, anxiety had been long divided along class and race lines. People of color and those living in poverty had little access to psychiatric treatment, and the modes of self-medication they often usedheroin and other opioidswere criminalized. Psychiatrists, physicians, and drug companies felt that poor people werent smart enough to get anxious in the same way as those of the middle class. As Herzberg put it, Some kinds of suffering were seen as deserving, and others as undeserving....

"...Two physicians put it plainly in the 1957 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: anxiety was so common as to be statistically normal among professional persons, but rare among Southern Negroes and reservation Indians. It was the brainworkers who needed drugs like Miltown, as some medical journals called white-collar workers. And, increasingly, the wives of the
brainworkers."

Maybe this was what I was prescribed as a child for 'heat rash'. The doctor told my mother she needed to stop me from running around. (If this site allowed laugh emojis, there would be three here.) My mother to her credit had the prescription filled but threw t away when she realized it was tranquilizer.

 

Re: Mother's little helper » beckett2

Posted by Hugh on December 19, 2020, at 18:54:39

In reply to Re: Mother's little helper, posted by beckett2 on November 5, 2020, at 20:57:15

It sounds like you had a good mother.


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