Q: why are there so many prescription medications for depression?
A: In a word “profit.” Drug companies make drugs to fight depression to make billions for their shareholders, and medical physicians often get a cut of the money from drugs they prescribe.
Q: Why do people take them?
A: The easy answer is that more people are more depressed more often, and the reason for that is the increased stress of modern life. But ...Society has been programmed to believe that, if something is wrong with your health, you can fix the symptoms with drugs and surgeries, and then the underlying cause will go away. Not only that, but aggressive pharmaceutical marketing has caused many to believe that if something isn’t quite right it may be a “syndrome” needing to be addressed by drugs, some of them with horrendous side-effects.
Q: Do the drugs work?
A: Undoubtedly the drugs change your brain chemistry but does that mean they work. No! They may change how you feel but what about the real reason or underlying cause! Also the drug disclaimers often list depression as one of those side-effects. In other words the so called cure is causing the problem? Furthermore people are also taking pills to offset the side-effects of other pills that they didn’t need in the first place. I don’t intend to demean those who need medication to stave off. But, our society has become overly drug dependent. Something is wrong with our collective thinking.
Things have to change. As we become more and more dependent on drugs our health is suffering! Drugs may change how you feel but they will NEVER make you more healthy!
