I was practicing when it started. First it just wasted my time (talk to your doctor) but gradually over time, the treat everything as a disease mentality promoted by the hucksters took deeper and deeper root, med lists, (and price tags) grew ever longer to the point that rooting out a drug reaction or interaction became more more impractical. Meanwhile, people still age, it still sucks, they still fall apart slowly until they die. Mostly they just take more pills every day half of which are for “problems” that people used to not ever consider worth complaining about.

I am sure somebody somewhere got needed medical care for something serious in the nick of time–but I never met them. What I do see is an entire culture become more and more hypochondriacal which is itself a major detraction from quality of life.

Do any of these apply to you: get sleepy, have a hard time waking up, get hungry at odd times, have wet hair after you shower, work more than 2 hours a day, or like water… then you may suffer from depression.

Sure, as Supremacy Claus said, it could get people into the doctors office – BUT – I wonder if they caused more mistreatment/incorrect usage than anything.

Just my take.

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