What is wrong is not in here

Read some interesting statistics. In America prescriptions for anti-anxiety drugs went up 25% after 9/11 and anti-depressants up 17%. I don't think this is a reflection of the fear of dying in a terrorist attack. American politicians talk about the 'post 9/11 environment' as if a new world was born on that day, as if the nature of reality itself was altered and I think people are buying into that. A psychiatrist whose practice increased by 20% after the attacks said that "these people feel they have no control over their lives." I think that hits the nail on the head. For our governments this is a good thing-they have set themselves up as the ones to protect us in this evil new age. People puzzle over the rise in mental illness over the course of the twentieth century, but there really is no mystery-atom bombs, Vietnam, terrorism, wars, the loss of public space to corporations, the loss of community spirit, the increasing level of distrust between people, the increasing surveillance culture....what can an ordinary person do in the face of these things? With the state the world is in and the places we seem to be heading it seems to me that the depressed and frightened are the most sane. How can you seriously consider the state of the world and still be happy? I keep thinking about a simple little couplet Thom Yorke wrote:

Anti-depressants are a bad idea
What is wrong is not in here