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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

There's someone here namde pahunkboy that you should meet.

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

I think, at some point, they'll refine Prozac to the point where it not only eliminates depression, lethargy etc, but you know those 1 or 2 days you have, where you feel on top of the world, you have a 'Superman' attitude to everything, but with no more external reason than you did the day before? You'd be able to have those days EVERY day.

Of course, the next logical step would be to dump thousands of tons of the stuff into the reservoirs, thus making permanent happiness not a thing of privilege, but free to ALL. In fact, if this caught on globally, the very last moment of human UNhappiness on Earth would be some televised, recorded event (though probably with ZERO Youtube hits, as what happy person would want to see misery?)

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee
Of course, the next logical step would be to dump thousands of tons of the stuff into the reservoirs, thus making permanent happiness not a thing of privilege, but free to ALL.

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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

Being manic all the time would be as bad as being depressed all the time. Really want your best friend to start laughing when you tell him you have cancer? Or you lost your job? Because that's what would happen.

Go talk to anyone with bipolar disorder if you think constant mania and hypomania are desirable conditions.

The pa stands for pennsylvania, hunk and boy are self explanatory.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

I think, at some point, they'll refine Prozac to the point where it not only eliminates depression, lethargy etc, but you know those 1 or 2 days you have, where you feel on top of the world, you have a 'Superman' attitude to everything, but with no more external reason than you did the day before? You'd be able to have those days EVERY day.

Of course, the next logical step would be to dump thousands of tons of the stuff into the reservoirs, thus making permanent happiness not a thing of privilege, but free to ALL. In fact, if this caught on globally, the very last moment of human UNhappiness on Earth would be some televised, recorded event (though probably with ZERO Youtube hits, as what happy person would want to see misery?)

True story:

They had a drug that was being tested as an anti-depressant. It worked for that.

Guess what? The FDA was clear that they would not approve it even though it was very successful as an anti-depressant because the fact that it was also a "mood-elevator" meant it had too much abuse potential.

It had an interesting side effect in some people: spontanteous orgasms.