Why is everybody on anti-depressants and other psych drugs?

Question

If the whole country or world needs medications to cope with life, something else is going on here. Anti-depressants don't fix people's lives or make them happy or even give them skills to change themselves for the better. The drugs just make people accept what was once unacceptable to them.

What if depression is the beginning of a necessary evolutionary change? It seems to be the norm rather than the exception now. Why would you "treat" something that is statistically "normal" in a population?

I should have just said "anti-depressants." I agree that other types of psych drugs are necessary for true illnesses.

Answer 1

The answer is the last sentence of your first paragraph. The process of making people accept what was once unacceptable to them is called desensitizing.

Desensitizing is just one step toward compaction of the human race into one controllable unit. The process began in earnest with the advent of television. Desensitization to drugs was well underway by the1970s.

Since the 1970s we have gone from baby steps to giant steps in a march to global insanity. The world has entered a pixelated sound bitten existence; with the blessings of information overload, global warming, lost species, ulcerated ecosystems, impotent religions, etc. Right now this world is a statistical disaster on dozens of fronts.

This is not evolutionary but rather retrograde in all aspects.

Depression may have become the norm but will never be normal. Depression as an advent for evolutionary change is an interesting concept to say the least.

In summary. People are on drugs because, as you note, drugs make people accept what was once unacceptable to them. The process is known as desensitization. The cause is spiritual and the likely result disastrous..

Answer 2

Well, I know most people like the quick fix or at least think it is a quick fix. It take time and pain to fix people's life and they think they do not have the time and just don't want to face the pain. The Psychologist get something for prescribing all the psych drugs with out having to take the necessary time to listen to others problems. Or maybe religion is just not enough any more. In order to know how to control ones own mind, one needs to learn how it works, what makes the mind happy.

Example: Lets say you don't know how an engine (MIND) in a car works. You are having problems with the car. So you take it to a Mechanic (PSYCHOLOGIST), they listen to your problem for a few minutes and say

"I have this new part (DRUG), the latest out on the market, that is going to fix your problem."

The Mechanic never even drove the car, never saw there you were driving the car. The part makes the engine run different but it still having the same problem. Then they say

"well try this part this should fix it."

Now this goes on for weeks, months or even years.

Now a PSYCHOLOGIST can't drive your MIND, only you can. Only you know exactly what you have been through with your mind. So once you learn how your own engine works, you do not have to rely on PSYCHOLOGIST misdiagnosing the problem so that you keep coming back. Now facing pain can be very scary and will need to have a friend to stand strong with them to help them face the past.

Evolutionary change - lack of time, friends do not know how to listen or just do not have the time to listen.

Answer 3

While anti depressants do not get rid of any root reason of the melancholy, it does permit you to manage matters on a extra stage footing. I was once very reluctant to visit my health care professional for tablets as I proposal it was once a cop out by some means, however knew I could not pass on feeling the way in which I did. It was once whilst a buddy mentioned if you happen to have been anaemic, you would take iron, or wanted insulin cos your diabetic, it was once no one-of-a-kind from taking a capsule to support elevate serotonin, that is more commonly shrink with persons who endure with melancholy, I went to my gp's. It took the tablets approximately four weeks to paintings and I was once on them for approximately 6months. I've performed this two times and had no issues coming off them whilst I felt competent to.

Answer 4

because they're weak. I was on brink of being depress but I pulled myself out of it.

I have never took anti-depressant or any psych drugs in my life.

People basically want short cut and fast solution to all problems. So they think that relying on pills will help them when it will make things worse most of the time. Once others hear about it, they think "wow what a magic!" and will start to try take it and others will see it and try it. Soon everyone you know will be taking it.

Answer 5

We've gone from being a people that worked all of the time and had little to no free time to being a people with oodles of free time in about a century. Brain power that was once used for making sure our survival needs were met are now being used on the endless pursuit of new and better recreational activities.

Answer 6

I work in the mental health field and I can honestly say I DO think med.s for depression are used way to much. In the company I work for the clients have professionals to talk to,and they still want to try ...such and such new drug to see if they might feel better ,rather than listen to the advice the case.mgr. or Co. Dr. just gave them. I think if the medication were harder to get a script.for ....Joe Q. Public....they would try harder to solve their own problems. Squirlyshirley

Answer 7

Because I am crazy. Plus the little red tablets are more of an after dinner tablet. So yes. I do like chickens.

Edit.
I have Bipolar. It is real. The lithium is a base metal that would have no effect if I didn't need it.

Answer 8

I'm not on anti-depressants.

Depression is becoming more prevelant because our society demands a perfect, fun, expensive, the best of everything kind of life. It's unattainable. that and the FACT that people need something to believe in, and are moving away from God, so they have nothing left

Answer 9

Because there are still alot of people who don't need meds....it is just like the gay and non gay thing. Ten-ish years ago, it was under the "abnormal" psychology section of a psychology text book but not anymore. I don't know....maybe twenty or fifty years later, only 1% of world population are not on meds. I am on psych. meds....

Answer 10

the drugs dont make them just accept anything. the drugs alter the balance of mind altering chemicals their bodies already produce. the people who truly need those drugs have a positive reaction in most cases because their bodies produce either too much or too little of the hormones that make them depressed.