Dr. Seven Step

Dr. Seven-Steps

Two experts discussing the treatment of depression on NPR.
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Dr. Seven-Steps delivers the recipe in a glossy brochure
over radio waves;
exercise, friends, getting “back in the swing of it”,
meditation, find a guide,
nutritional supplements, can’t remember the seventh,
the recipe that when it doesn’t work
results in more despair and sense of failure.
And by the way, if it doesn’t work, just embrace it.
“You’re just stuck, out of balance, boy do I have the solution for you.
I used it and it worked, and by golly,
It’ll work for you, too! “
Just buy my book!
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Now Dr. Prozac Nation, the one who,
has slammed overuse of antidrepressants,
explained disease, brain chemistry,
how medication can help in some cases
as shown in clinical trials, how loss of function in life
is something to take seriously.
Hardly getting a word in edgewise, he finally
interrupted Dr. Seven-Steps mid-sentence to tell
us, those who have suffered, those who might suffer in the future,
those who care about family and friends who suffer,
how disturbed he was by the moralistic, self-righteous attitude
of Dr. Seven-Steps.
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I cheered in the privacy of my own car.