Sorry, James, but your attempt at comedy betrays a failure to take pain seriously. I’m currently on an SSRI (not Paxil) and an anti-convulsant. I’ve tried life off meds and on meds. When I read things like your column, I can’t help but see a reader somewhere, in the kind of pain I’ve known, being encouraged to think that pain is normal and drugs are dangerous, and that the proper thing to do is suck it up and suffer. That’s appalling, and not at all funny.
