健康择药:百忧解带来的未解之忧_BEC初级作文

健康择药:百忧解带来的未解之忧

Pendulums, by definition, swing, and the one on which Prozac rides is no exception. After the early talk about it as a wonder pill — a rather chic one at that — a backlash developed, perhaps unsurprisingly. Grave questions arose among some psychiatrists about whether the S.S.R.I.s increased chances that some people, notably teenagers, would commit suicide or at least contemplate it. No definite link was confirmed, but that did not end the concern of some prominent skeptics, like a British psychiatrist, Dr. David Healy. He has dismissed the notion of S.S.R.I.s as saviors as "bio-babble."

但凡事都是三十年河东三十年河西，百忧解也不例外。起初它被尊为灵丹妙药，还是种十分时髦的灵丹妙药，后来人们却又开始强烈地抵制它（或许这种反应不足为奇）。关于SSRI是否会增加某些人，特别是青少年的自杀事件或自杀倾向，精神科医生提出了严厉的质问。目前尚无研究证实两者之间存在必然的关联，但是这并没有打消某些著名的怀疑论者的疑虑，英国的精神病学家戴维·希利博士(David Healy)正是其中之一。他将那些把SSRI类药物当成救世主的说法贬斥为“生物噪音”。

If some users deem Prozac lifesaving, others consider it sensory-depriving. A loss of libido is a common side effect. Some writers and artists, while often relieved to be liberated from depression's tightest grip, also say that Prozac leaves them mentally hazy. In his 2017 book, "Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder," Nassim Nicholas Taleb offered this: "Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's ‘spleen,' Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced."