… all gone!
In the age of Big Pharma, we have, of course come to medicalize [anxious] thoughts — not to mention just about every other whim and pang. When I once confided with a physician friend that one of my children seemed to overheat with anxiety around tests, he smiled kindly and literally assured, “No need to worry about that, we have a cure for anxiety today.” On current reckoning, anxiety is a symptom, a problem, but Kierkegaard insists, “Only a prosaic stupidity maintains that this (anxiety) is a disorganization.” And again, if a “speaker maintains that the great thing about him is that he has never been in anxiety, I will gladly provide him with my explanation: that is because he is very spiritless. ”
March 19th, 2012 at 6:57AM
This seems related.
March 19th, 2012 at 11:40AM
yes now instead of cake we will feed them prozac and youtube.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/html/paper_kierkegaard.html