Are Mood-Altering or Mind-Altering Pharmaceutical Drugs the New Cigarettes?

Question by Madame Morticia: Are Mood-Altering Or Mind-Altering Pharmaceutical Drugs The New Cigarettes?
Have pharmaceutical companies promoted the notion that every little negative thought, feeling, or reaction is somehow a symptom of “mental illness” “depression” or some new, never-before-heard-of “disorder”, simply in order to push their product – mood and mind-altering drugs?

Is this why so many people, nowadays, are classified as “mentally ill”, “disturbed”, or “depressed”? Discuss.

Best answer:

Answer by the_only_solorose
pharmaceutical companies and their campaigns aside, mental illness, being depression, schizophrenia, or whatever has been shoved under the rug and considered a stigma for so long, and unfairly so, that now that it has been brought out in the open and accepted is, in my opinion, a very good thing.
A little common sense on the part of the population is called for here. People know when what they are experiencing is beyond the norm for them….and they are right to seek treatment if that is the case.
Back to the pharmaceutical companies, thank god they have done the research and development on all the new ways to treat mental illness. That they are businesses and as such need to make a profit is perfectly acceptable. However, the pharmacies out there that mark up the cost of medication, sometimes over 800% are gouging the public unnecessarily and need to be curbed in this incredible and greedy effort to make their own profit off the misery of our people.

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