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Originally Posted by shortandcute
I met this lady once whose family insisted that she was a drug addict because she had to take some antidepressants for a while--but she was not abusing them.
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Even if she was - they were not qualified to judge. They weren't professionals.
But it is pretty common to say that anybody who takes AD's is abusing them and when it is done within a family (my father used to say it to my late mother) it is a sad form of abuse.
And, it has a long-standing tradition which probably goes back right to the time psychiatric meds were put into wide use.
A very good analogy, shortandcute.