Snapshot of a cartoon by Mueller, seen in Funny Times. The flat-faced masks harken back to Thorazine stupor and Jack Nicholson post-lobotomy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as if psychiatry hasn't progressed since the '60s. This makes me angry. I don't like seeing the myth perpetuated that psych meds will destroy your personality, turning you into a dull, emotionless husk. Sure, the medications are diverse and they affect people differently, but Prozac is not an automatic zombifier. In fact, it has the potential to alleviate crippling depression, bringing sufferers out of the undead mire of mental illness into regular life! My own pill du jour, Effexor, does the same.
"Theater on Meds" is a cheap joke. It's a joke at the expense of the people who are harmed by their prescriptions, as well as the ones who are too scared to find out.
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