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We can speculate everything, but it is factual that Denmark has higher Anti-depressant consumption than most countries.
It doesn't really make much sense to me. A supposedly happy country with a high intake of such drugs... So, I would say no...
As already stated before by someone, in Denmark (and also Netherlands) certain anti depressants are used to treat chronic nerve pains, like severe back or neck hernias for instance. Those are not anti depressants like valium (which is very addictive) and such, but non- addictive medication of which one of the side effects is that it sedates the nerves. This actually has very good results to temper the pain, and is much better (and healthier) then the highly addictive traditional Opiate medications.
So, this kind of scr*ws up the numbers regarding the amount of depressed people. This is kind of a new method in the Netherlands, but in Scandinavian countries it's very common.
Happiness can't be measured by any index or formula, especially considering that they often come up with completely different results between each other. Denmark, Costa Rica, the Philippines and Thailand are someow all said to be the happiest countries in the world according to different studies
It is like in Italy and France, you must drink wine or you are not "real". And then again someone might want to be sober or don't like taste of wine... We supposed to live in those little prejudice boxes so other world would not be confused when labelling us... It is nice to "know" something of other countries but be aware for the possibility that all you know is just generalizing and legends that lives forever.
As already stated before by someone, in Denmark (and also Netherlands) certain anti depressants are used to treat chronic nerve pains, like severe back or neck hernias for instance. Those are not anti depressants like valium (which is very addictive) and such, but non- addictive medication of which one of the side effects is that it sedates the nerves. This actually has very good results to temper the pain, and is much better (and healthier) then the highly addictive traditional Opiate medications.
So, this kind of scr*ws up the numbers regarding the amount of depressed people. This is kind of a new method in the Netherlands, but in Scandinavian countries it's very common.
Valium is not an antidepressant. Neither are opiates. Valium is an anti anxiety medication. Anti depressants (SSRIs) are not addictive. You must be thinking of duloxetine which has only been approved for use in Denmark since 2008.
Valium is not an antidepressant. Neither are opiates. Valium is an anti anxiety medication. Anti depressants (SSRIs) are not addictive. You must be thinking of duloxetine which has only been approved for use in Denmark since 2008.
Yeah i know that, but that's not what i meant. What i meant was normally when someone has a hernia, they (at least here they do) give them a combination of valium and opiates (valium to relax the muscles, opiates to kill the pain). Some anti depressants can do both that. One of them is Amitriptiline.
My friend went to Oslo for a year and at the end of the term couldn't wait to get back to Texas, because he thinks life is miserable in Nordic countries: everything is too expensive to the extent you need to consider how much beef you can afford, winter is so long and day time is so short, plus there are simply too few people to feel like you are in the middle of something. The high tax rate surely doesn't help unless you have half a dozen kids to benefit from that.
No, I'd rather live in Singapore, or HongKong than anywhere in Scandinavia.
My friend went to Oslo for a year and at the end of the term couldn't wait to get back to Texas, because he thinks life is miserable in Nordic countries: everything is too expensive to the extent you need to consider how much beef you can afford, winter is so long and day time is so short, plus there are simply too few people to feel like you are in the middle of something. The high tax rate surely doesn't help unless you have half a dozen kids to benefit from that.
No, I'd rather live in Singapore, or HongKong than anywhere in Scandinavia.
I know a guy that lived a year in Texas. He hated it there. Way too hot summers, too much driving.
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It is nice to "know" something of other countries but be aware for the possibility that all you know is just generalizing and legends that lives forever.
You need to be some kind of a retard to think that "more SSRI drugs = more depressed country" 
