In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.
I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.
We're more effective than birth control pills.
I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.