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Posted by sigismund on June 28, 2013, at 11:45:27
A lot of interesting stuff here, especially that which is in his own voice.
Posted by sigismund on June 29, 2013, at 6:38:35
In reply to Leonard Cohen Depression and Drugs, posted by sigismund on June 28, 2013, at 11:45:27
In particular....
In this interview,6 he discusses, with his characteristic candor and dark humor, his course of treatment and his decision to unilaterally discontinue these medications:
[Leonard Cohen] I was taking things like Prozac for depression, but none of those antidepressants worked.[Interviewer] Which have you tried?
[Leonard Cohen] Oh, lets see. I was involved in early medication, like Desipramine. And the MAOs [monoamine oxidase inhibitors], and the new generation Paxil, Zoloft, and Wellbutrin. I even tried experimental anti-seizure drugs, ones that had some small successes in treating depression. I was told they all give you a bottom, a floor beneath which you are not expected to plunge.
[Interviewer] And?
[Leonard Cohen] I plunged. And all were disagreeable, in subtly different ways.
[Interviewer] How?
[Leonard Cohen] Well, on Prozac, I thought I had attained some kind of higher plateau because my interest in women had dissolved. He laughs. Then I realized it was just a side effect. That stuff crushes your libido.
[Leonard Cohen] So one day, a few years ago, I was in a car, on my way to the airport. I was really, really low, on many medications, and pulled over, I reached behind to my valise, took out the pills, and threw out all the drugs I had. I said, These things really dont even begin to confront my predicament. I figured, If I am going to go down I would rather go down with my eyes wide open........
Posted by sigismund on June 29, 2013, at 18:47:17
In reply to Re: Leonard Cohen Depression and Drugs, posted by sigismund on June 29, 2013, at 6:38:35
I wonder if the prevalence of this in the west has something to do with deprived parenting patterns?
If no one else will love you................
Not to speak of the fight to the death between siblings.
Reaction formation to the genocide?
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