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The government yesterday released details of its £170m plan to train 3,600 more psychological therapists in the wake of a study showing that antidepressant drugs such as Prozac are no more effective than a placebo.About 900,000 more people will be treated for depression and anxiety under the plan, according to the Department of Health, which predicts that 450,000 of them will be completely cured. The department also believes that 25,000 fewer people will claim sick pay and benefits because of mental health problems.

Steven Kazmierczak had been taking three drugs prescribed for him by his psychiatrist, the Northern Illinois University gunman's girlfriend told CNN. Jessica Baty said Steven Kazmierczak was irritable but not erratic before his shooting rampage. Jessica Baty said Tuesday that her boyfriend of two years had been taking Xanax, used to treat anxiety, and Ambien, a sleep agent, as well as the antidepressant Prozac. Baty said the psychiatrist prescribed the medications, a fact that made her so "nervous" that she tried to persuade Kazmierczak to stop taking one of the drugs.

Northern Illinois University police said the gunman in Thursday's campus shootings had stopped taking prescribed medications and had begun acting erratically in the days before he walked into a science lecture and opened fire. Police said the suspect identified as 27-year-old former student Stephen Kazmierczak killed five students, wounded at least 15 others and then killed himself. It was reported that a sixth student had died Friday morning, but Coroner Rusty Miller told the media that there was a communication error between his office and the hospital. About The Shooter Police have yet to uncover a motive. Kazmierczak was an...

IT'S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE WEIRD By now, the world knows that the killer at Virginia Tech is a guy named Cho Seung-Hui. You won't see him described as an "Asian" anymore. The group that protects the Asians have voiced a protest for fear of casting aspersions on all Asians. I think I've read enough about the massacre to know that Hui was a loner. He talked in monosyllable responses when asked questions. His roommate says he wasn't particularly interactive. He wrote a story for an English assignment that apparently was a bit over the top. So much so that...

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At last, the movie version of Elizabeth Wurtzel's bestseller Prozac Nation is coming to the screen. Wonder why it took so long? Here's a clue:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, published in 1994, was Elizabeth Wurtzel's first memoir, a bestseller that focused a huge amount of attention on its author. When Wurtzel was interviewed a few months ago by Jan Wong of the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, she made some very unfortunate and ill-timed remarks about a certain event that happened right in her own neighborhood on September 11, 2001. "I had not the slightest emotional...

I am warning everyone to read this site and read about the plans that these awful people have for us. I am going to contact SFPD and send this information to them so that if any of this stuff happens that they will know that these people set it up. They have plans to make it look like we did hit and runs and hit peole and all sorts of mean things. Here is an example of one of their posts: Follow Freepers to Cars and Stage "Accidents" by Oh, No Sunday March 09, 2003 at 12:51 PM *Follow the...

Here's a blast from the past, as dope-addled author-babe Wuertzel says she doesn't understand all the fuss over 9/11... "I just felt, like, everyone was overreacting," Wurtzel told a Canadian journalist last week about her experience being near Ground Zero on Sept 11. "People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me." Remember?