yeah. pro-publica has (or had, anyway) a searchable database, "dollars for docs." out of curiosity, I looked up a former shrink. oh man...he's raking in 10s of thousands per year from drug companies. awesome.

i think the very term "antidepressant" is misleading (at best). the same is true of the term "antipsychotic." Some "antidepressants" are stimulating, some are sedating, some can reduce frontal lobe activity by a whole lot at therapeutic doses...and the psychiatrists don't tell the people/patients what's going on with the drugs they're being prescribed.

"antipsychotics" are really better described as tranquilizers or neuroleptics, both of which were the going terms until the "atypicals" took over. Some people do well on tranquilizers, some don't, many are somewhere in between.

interesting post, btw.