Salon.com > Charles Barber http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Are we really so miserable? http://www.salon.com/2009/08/26/barber_age_of_anxiety/ http://www.salon.com/2009/08/26/barber_age_of_anxiety/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:26:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2009/08/26/barber_age_of_anxiety Earlier this month the Archives of General Psychiatry released a much publicized study that one in 10 Americans is now taking antidepressants within the course of a year, making antidepressants the most prescribed kind of medication in the country. The number of Americans on antidepressants doubled between 1996 and 2005, and the number of prescriptions written for these drugs has increased each year between 2005 and 2008. One has to wonder: Are we really that miserable?

Continue Reading...

]]> http://www.salon.com/2009/08/26/barber_age_of_anxiety/feed/ 210