Why is it that so many people are being given anti-psychotics and anti-depressants these days
1) We are more aware of what kinds of psychological problems people can have, and are thus diagnosing more.
2) Previously, there has been a far heavier societal stigma to be on medication. There still is one, but it's less.
3) Patients demand treatment from the doctor, and while therapy is
always the go-to treatment for mental illnesses (medication is to help mitigate/control symptoms) the patient often wants a quick fix, when there is none.
Moreover, why are they being given specifically to teens and young adults?
For the reasons I stated above, and because society wants to "fix" everyone. Teens especially are under a lot of pressure in how they perceive they should be acting/feeling and think that if they aren't a charismatic extrovert, something is wrong with them.
Over the history of the human race, we've never done anything like this.
We've never had the medical knowledge to try before.
And why is it, if the treatments are legitimate, that so many teens and young adults are depressed or psychotic?
People have always had these illnesses. They just weren't recognized as being such and weren't acknowledged as anything more than personal weakness/laziness/anger problems.
My theory is that the current generation has not had to go through the reality and brutality of life. They escape it using the new technology of computers and computer gaming. I'm not saying that an occasional escape from everyday life is bad, on the contrary, I am all behind that. However, too much of it can cause serious expectational viewpoint problems, which is what we see today. People expect the world to be perfect and always work their way. This is an unrealistic expectation and, thus, the current generation gets depressed that their fantasy world does not come true.
This is absolutely baseless and shows little to no understanding about mental illnesses. Every generation thinks following ones are worse or lazier or less educated, when we can show that it's the opposite usually. We are progressing. There are less people committing violent crimes and suicide in developed nations that have strong healthcare systems that treat mental illness and don't think having one means someone is weak or lazy. Depression in particular is -not- caused by someone who's never known hardship having to face it, it's a chemical imbalance in the brain over a long duration of time that makes the person unable to find contentment/joy/excitement. People have used escapes all throughout history, alcoholism being one of the more common ones.
So, the medical realm is handed this problem and the doctors don't go to the source, instead they mask the symptoms
They try to. Patients don't let them, because they think they don't need treatment. They come complaining about their symptoms, then just ask for a pill because they think it will fix everything.
What other conditions can be simply fixed, but the doctors just aren't telling you or they just don't know how to fix?
Mental illnesses
can't be simply fixed. There is no known drug that anyone with depression can take that will suddenly make that depression go away. Everyone is different.
After that comes the question of if the doctors really know what they claim to know.
They do.
No. So why are we putting someone who ACTS like they are trained, but who just mask the symptoms with our livelihood?
Why are we letting someone who acts like they know what they're talking about make implied paranoid statements while promoting homeopathic medicine, which is nothing more than the placebo effect combined with supplying basic vitamins to one's diet?
If all they are going to do is give me drugs, then I'm not going to go to them.
That's not all they are going to do - that's all your insurance is going to cover. People don't want to go to therapy because they a, don't think they need it, b, don't want to spend the time doing it, c, don't want to pay for it, and d, think that going to therapy means admitting something is "wrong" with them, as if it's their fault for being sick.
Um, actually, the doctors are giving depressed people drugs that are 10 times more addictive than cocaine and much more harmful.
I'd like a source about that.
And, yes, all maladies can be cured using non drugs.
You now have malaria. Good luck.
For example, I drink more than 3 mg of Iodine every day. It's Nascent Iodine
I can find absolutely nothing about the effects of nascent iodine that has been proven to have any sort of effects in a controlled study, except it potentially causing hyperthyroidism if you take over a few hundred micrograms a day and being good to have in case of radiation. As such, I highly suggest you stop taking that much.
which means that it is deactivated
Uh, no, it doesn't. It means almost the exact opposite, in fact.
Nascent Statedoctors obviously haven't been taught the right things about the drugs that they are prescribing.
Judging by what you've said so far, you're the one who has no idea what is going on, and you're just seeing that they're saying something different from what you believe and conclude they don't know the right things.
And I disagree. I actually think that the drug dealers may know more about the drugs they are pushing than the doctors. The drug dealers know what the drugs do and they know how the drugs feel. They see the affects of the drugs they push every day and they are honest about the stuff that they are pushing. The doctors aren't. I would rather have a drug dealer pushing stuff on me than a doctor.
Who are "the drug dealers?" Are we talking about pharmaceutical companies, or street corner coke sellers?
And by the way, the things that we have found make sense on a cellular level whereas the stuff that the doctors are feeding you don't.
Explain how homeopathic/alternative medicine makes sense on a molecular level. Because how molecules interact is how effects happen.
You can heal yourself, you just have to know how. You don't need doctors.
*Points to third world countries with few doctors, where death rates are far higher.*
Homeopathy/alternative medicine
at best helps people because they start taking various vitamins that supplement deficiencies they had before. Everything else is the Placebo Effect. All the crap and random stuff in alternative medicine can be quite harmful (like your massive Iodine dosage that's going to give you hyperthyroidism eventually).
