Do you ever feel like there is this imaginary 'normal standard' we are all supposed to work towards?

Question

like a certain way we should all be and if your not "you should take a pill to fix that!"? Whose setting these 'normal standards'? I hope it's not the drug companies....

Answer 1

First of all, you need to stop watching televison. If you must watch television, watch it only with TIVO (a worthwhile investment) Prescription drug companies should not be allowed to advertise on television. In the future I predict they'll suffer the same fate that the tobacco industry did. You're probably too young to remember cigarette commercials on U.S.A. television.

Part of the problem is that the U.S.A. is a strange, overworked, yet slouchly society. Many want a pill to fix everything, and their first reaction is to grab a pill. People have felt like this long before prescription drug companies were allowed to advertise on television. They don't want to admit that their lifestyles, and poor eating habits are just two reasons among many as to why they feel ill or unhappy.

The above also explains the overuse of antibiotics in U.S.A. The "health" industry is also a business in the U.S.A.. If a doctor won't give a patient the drugs the patient wants, the patient will go to another doctor that will cater to their drug habit. It's a deplorably sad state of affairs, but it's TRUE.

One of the biggest mistakes Americans ever made was trying to "keep up with the Jones's" Who cares what the Jones's have?

Your Honda Accord outshines their Cadillac Seville and Mercedes in many ways by leaps and bounds.

You probably have great sex on your 2 acres of property while they fight every night on their 15 acres of property.

Exercise, eat well, and get enough sleep. Find hobbies that you like to and do them.

Live by your own standards and do in life what you were genetically designed to do, to hell with the dream stealers.

There are exceptions to this rule, if you're a psychopath please don't follow your genes.

Answer 2

Depends on the case!

Depression is an illness (and definitely not an imaginary normal standard) I would rather not see affect individuals and if a pill can help them...... all the better!

And I totally see what you mean. I think anything involving weight issues is controlled entirely by companies. They set the standard and sell the fat burners! Everyone is not meant to be 100Lbs soaking wet!

Answer 3

I feel like there should be a normal standard as far as ethics and morals are concerned. Unfortunately no one is setting the standards and especially not the drug companies. They are living high off the unethical hog.

Answer 4

In the real world there is no such thing as normal and there should never be. There is no two people alike so who is to say which "ONE " of us is normal. However the drug companies would like to have the final say, I am sure.

Answer 5

yes there are or we're led to believe that and the pressure is applied everywhere from families friends, tv papers magazines and certainly school. the blue collar workers formed and built the USA and continue to do so yet the white collars all expect to get off scott free and not pay there fair share of the taxes, and still fell free to send it overseas and not bring it on home and take care of their own. I think we should get standarized taxing!

Answer 6

Yeah. And that's not something bad.

It's a society's norms. It's communicated from the time we were children through our interactions with their parents and with our peers, through media, through stories, with the words that we use, in education, our manners.

That said, since we are part of society, it's really us that set these "normal standards," though to change them for everyone, everyone must change.

Answer 7

It's television, the media, some music, government that does this stuff but mostly religion

Answer 8

Before I even clicked to see your extra details, my answer was going to be "Pharmacuetically Controlled". I'm sticking with that one, but ask your doctor if it's right for you.