Smiling Addiction is a short fiction award-winning video in the surreal genre about “the pursuit of happiness, and self-medication.” It shows the dark side of antidepressants, and the smiley-face veneer produced by “happy pills.”

Antidepressants are psychiatric drugs used to treat the symptoms of depression including weight loss or gain, difficulty falling sleeping and staying asleep, sleeping too much, loss of appetite, lack of energy, and agitation by altering the chemical processes of the brain.

Smiling Addiction was directed by Brandon McCormick at Whitestone Motion Pictures with the support of Crossroads Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

The music was created and performed by The Wright Brothers: Nick Kirk and Billy Wilkerson.

Smiling Addiction Lyrics

happiness is the absence of common sense
a smoking gun
everything will be just fine
just bite your lip and close your eyes
where there are no wars there is no hope
drink to forget what you’ve seen
this life is just a dream with candy all around
got a smiling addiction
smiling addiction
treat your smiling addiction today
today

say goodbye to all your pain
and feel alive
the feeling is gone
had your feel of the heart in mind
it’s but a gift for the leading blind
why should we change
when we’ve got no will
drink to ward off what you’ve seen
this life is just a dream with candy all around
got a smiling addiction
smiling addiction
got a smiling addiction
treat your smiling addiction today
today
smile today

~end

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