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During my working years, I never watched much serialized television drama – those things like The West Wing<\/em> that captivated the interest of so many. I preferred my entertainment as films or stage productions. There was an exception, three years in the 70s in a tiny rural village in England where those things just weren’t available, so I kept up with some of the shows on television – mostly mysteries. Now, in retirement, I’m again in a tiny rural village on this side of the pond, but armed with the wonders of modern technology – DVDs, Netflix, and the like. So over the years, I’ve watched the same things as before – the various British Inspector series [Lewis, Morse, Frost] and branched out into the Swedish Walander, Annika Bengtzon<\/span>, etc. Right now, I’m watching the Danish Borgen<\/font><\/strong><\/em> series [it means Castle<\/em>]. I’ll have to say, it’s a cut above the sophisticated pulp fiction of the cops and robber shows, more in the category of serious theater. The premise is the election of the first female Prime Minister of Denmark, with the goings on in the cabinet, the press, and the world providing the backdrop for the private dramas of the characters.<\/p>\n [spoiler alert<\/font><\/strong><\/em>] In the last episode I watched, the Prime Minister’s 14 y\/o daughter has been put on an antidepressant for an anxiety disorder [developed after her parent’s divorce caused by her mother’s preoccupation with her position]. Was she going to develop akathisia? I wondered. No, but then she begins to "cheek" her meds. In the midst of her mother’s triumph in stopping a war in Africa, the daughter ends up in a heap locked in the bathroom. Diagnosis? Alto? You guessed it – SSRI withdrawal. Ultimately, the Prime Minister takes a leave of absence to be with her daughter and stop the media harassment of her child. <\/p>\n During my working years, I never watched much serialized television drama – those things like The West Wing that captivated the interest of so many. I preferred my entertainment as films or stage productions. There was an exception, three years in the 70s in a tiny rural village in England where those things just weren’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46435"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46489,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46435\/revisions\/46489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I was impressed that the Danish writers were sophisticated enough to include SSRI withdrawal in their plot line and that the fictional psychiatrist made the diagnosis. But alas, we viewers were around for the initial visits to the psychiatrist and watched him put the teenage girl on an SSRI without warning her or her parents about either akathisia or withdrawal. I guess you can’t have it all…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"