TY - BOOK AU - Greenberg, Gary TI - Manufacturing depression : the secret history of a modern disease SN - 9781416569800 U1 - 362.25 GRE/M PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Social problems and social services KW - People with mental illness and disabilities KW - Neuroses KW - Depression KW - Mental KW - United States KW - History KW - Antidepressants N2 - Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets—doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent of Americans are now expected to suffer from it during their lives. Doctors, and drug companies, claim that this convergence is a public health triumph: the recognition and treatment of an under-diagnosed illness. Gary Greenberg, a practicing therapist and longtime depressive, raises a more disturbing possibility: that the disease has been manufactured to suit (and sell) the cure UR - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Manufacturing-Depression/Gary-Greenberg/9781416569800 ER -