July 19th, 2012

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Drugged Britain

Last year, 43million SSRI prescriptions were written in England and Wales, a 28 per cent rise in three years and costing the NHS around £235million a year. Close to seven million were issued for benzodiazepines – anti-anxiety drugs including Valium and Xanax, the current pill du jour — which Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman admits to carrying in her handbag, like a “lucky charm”. So what’s going on? Are we really in the midst of an epidemic of depression and anxiety in this country? And if we are so depressed, what is causing it?

Mental health charities have linked the rise in “mood disorders” to the recession. The psychiatrist Dr Paul Keedwell, author of How Sadness Survived, believes it’s part of a bigger crisis: “We live in a capitalist, urbanised society that’s all about segregation and lacking support networks, when we are social mammals wired to be in a much more close-knit community.

“Modern urbanism has its advantages, in that we are physically healthier, but the trade-off seems to be much more psychological disturbance.” But not all health professionals agree. “Severe mood disorders used to be rare,” says David Healy, professor of psychological medicine at Cardiff University.
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