that reminds me of antidepressants

When I woke up I thought a little bit about the various dystopian worlds I'd read about in my youth, and how most of them are stable mainly because they keep all their citizens on drugs. Obviously, in the US we have Prozac-type drugs and Ritalin-type drugs to keep everyone in line. Then I went to Quiznos and forgot about that.
Well, just now I checked Google News and saw an article about antidepressants causing depression and suicide (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-12-13T232736Z_01_N12361095_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-ANTIDEPRESSANTS-SUICIDE-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=SciHealth-C1-Headline-2), which reminded me of the kid on acne meds who flew a plane into a bank shortly after 9-11 and everyone thought it was a terrorist attack instead of just some poor guy whose brain was wrecked by prescription drugs. Then I checked the blog and saw racinian's entry about suicide, "the number 2 cause of death of college students, claiming 1,100 lives a year," and I said to myself, "huh... suicide's a pretty hot item this time of year."
And it really is. There are more suicides over the holidays than at any other time. Everyone is really sad.
:-*