Tweets on a single topic ("Antidepressant Fraud") published within a short period.
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Jun 30 2011: Depression is a serious medical condition that can be treated with drugs or by taking control of your own problems. [view in context] 5284
Jun 30 2011: RT @trevlutz: .@BadDalaiLama "The Rose" and "Wind Beneath My Wings", both by Bette Midler, are full of sentimental bullshit too. 5285
Jun 30 2011: RT @shuffleyerfeet: @BadDalaiLama what if your depression is caused by something outwith your control? 5286
Jun 30 2011: There's one little problem with treating depression with drugs—legal or otherwise: How do you get off the drugs? 5287
Jun 30 2011: You suffer a loss. You're depressed. Doctor prescribes an antidepressant. Does that help you solve the problems—or just deaden your senses? 5288
Jun 30 2011: Depression involves brain chemistry—but so does every thought you think. Doesn't mean you can't take control of it. 5289
Jun 30 2011: Drug companies would rather you took their depression drug than solve your problems. That's why they urge you to "Ask your doctor about __". 5290
Jun 30 2011: If you aren't flirting with depression then you aren't really living. Finding strategies to deal with it is one of life's great challenges. 5291
Jun 30 2011: Depression tells you, "Your life's fucked up, Dude!" Thing is, depression is often right. So who is going to unfuck it for you? 5292
Jun 30 2011: The way to treat your own depression is come up with your own mental strategies to manage it. Drugs can't create those strategies for you. 5293
Jun 30 2011: The solution to depression is drugs, say drug companies. 5294
Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression is psychotherapy, say psychotherapists. 5295
Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression is religion, say religious leaders. 5296
Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression—the only one that really works over time—is YOU taking control of your own life. 5297
Jul 1 2011: Given a choice between changing ones life and taking a drug to alleviate the symptoms of bad decisions, most prefer the drug. 5298
Jul 1 2011: Depression is a messenger telling you something isn't right. Should you shoot him or listen to him? 5299
Jul 1 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay: "Depression" 5300
Jul 1 2011: "Doctor, my woman is coming back home late today. Can you maybe give me something?..." <== Listen, Barry, doc can't help with that. 5301
Jul 1 2011: .@ReverendReve "and what to do if one isn't strong or intelligent enough to fight/figure out the 'demons'?" <== Drugs of course! :) 5302
Jul 1 2011: RT @ReverendReve: @BadDalaiLama and what to do if one isnt strong or intelligent enough to fight/figure out the 'deamons'? 5303
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama clearly you've never been insane before. 5304
Jul 1 2011: RT @shuffleyerfeet: @BadDalaiLama antidepressants = zombie #medicinalmisdirection 5305
Jul 1 2011: RT @algekalipso: @BadDalaiLama It can be added, though, that there are 'taking control of your problems'-resistant depressions. 5306
Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Antidepressant drugs are the worst, most devastating trick played on society by big medicine and big ph ... 5307
Jul 1 2011: I'm thinking of joining the Scientologists on this one. L. Ron and I are thinking along the same lines! 5308
Jul 1 2011: See Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant 2nd paragraph — In published AND unpublished studies, antidepressants only marginally better than a placebo. 5309
Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama antidepressants: Bad Dalai is getting his TRUTH on! Right on brother! 5310
Jul 1 2011: .@polkadotminerva "will this essay be anywhere I can read it?" <== at http://BadDalaiLama.com (in a few days) 5311
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama depression that benefits from anti-depressants is often a dysphoria where your emotions do not reflect your ... 5312
Jul 1 2011: .@avphibes "...often your emotions do not reflect your life situation." <== So taking drugs to "fix" the problem, how do you get off them? 5313
Jul 1 2011: These little essays usually result in an immediate loss of followers. In the words of Spinal Tap: "The audience is getting more selective." 5314
Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Essay and audience: You may have lost some followers with the depression essay, but you gained a loyal ... 5315
Jul 1 2011: RT @algekalipso: @BadDalaiLama@MikeShawTweet Thanks.Really interesting that active placebos are as good. So the fact that you feel some ... 5316
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @baddalailama I recommend as supplemental reading one of my favorite writings on depression: http://t.co/y5eTQWq 5317
Jul 1 2011: A social or therapeutic intervention is most likely to work if the client explicitly wants help and is willing to pay a hefty price for it. 5318Jul 1 2011: All the news you need in one place! http://twitpic.com/5jbjtw #walmart ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5319
Jul 1 2011: @avphibes That would be dependence. [view in context]
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