Essay About Different Types Of Anti Depression Medication And Today People

The Pursuit of Happiness
Essay title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Past vs. present
According to the Easterbrook, Greg. The Progress paradox. New York: random
house, 2003.people in the united states live 99.6% better than ever before. Technology
has made life easier, and health care better. For the most part the U.S is now a equal
opportunity country. Yet like anything else, there is always a down side. An example of that
would be, the major increase in anxiety. Or even the increase of obesity. The world will never be
a completely happy place, and no one is to blame.
Today people are surrounded my shopping malls, fast food, and houses with two cars in each
driveway. Looking back a hundred years age none of these things are even heard of. Does this
mean that people are unhappy a hundred years ago because they don’t have what we do? No it
doesn’t, they wouldn’t even know what those things where. If people today where put back into
the state of a hundred years ago, they would probably be devastated. Does that mean people are
shallower today than a hundred years ago? Or would we just not know what to do with ourselves.
Probable a little bit of both.
The life expectancy has risen intensely over the past hundred years. What was once 30 years of
age is now up to around 70 years of age. The life expectancy hasn’t risen due to better health, but
better health care. Today the flu is no longer as feared as it was before. Getting a cold today does
not make people fear for their lives. Thanks to technology we have things like antibiotics, and
penicillin. Surgery is sterile today. Doctors and dentists do not double as black smiths; they both
requite mass amounts of schooling.
After all of these improvements, depression and anxiety are still a problem for people
today. Mass amounts of people are “clinicly depressed” whatever that means. There are well over
a thousand different types of anti depression medication, with over a thousands different types of
medication people still manage to be depressed. Along with anti depressants there is a large
variety of medications dedicated to preventing anxiety, it still manages to be at an all time high.
According to David G Myers, PD.D., a physically fit and healthy body is one of the
happiness enabling elements.
America is known for its obesity problem. Maybe all the
medications are just an attempt for the easier softer way. Maybe Americans are just to lazy to put
in the foot work in order to live a happy life. Of perhaps the fact that there are so many
medications, people don’t feel the need to do any thing else, just take a pill before bed and not
worry about it.
In the entitled Authentic Happiness. By Martin Selisman Ph.D. He explains that there are
“signature strengths” that every person possesses. When each strength is exercised equily
happiness is achievable. There are six core strengths listed on page eleven in his book:
– Wisdom and knowledge
– Courage
– Love and