I read an account in a book of non-fiction medical stories (It's unfortunately packed away in a box at the moment) of a school teacher who was absolutely ferocious if she forgot to take her lithium. An extreme example, to be sure, but it definitely made me understand the need for medication in certain cases. Overall, however, we are truly, truly an over-medicated nation. Prozac, Xanax, Zoloft. I wish medical marijuana could be used to treat depression, as I recall a college friend who said it was superior to anything he'd ever been proscribed (but I don't want to get into a legalization debate here
).
It's quite problematic when overworked practicioners just throw medication at people because they can't or won't take the time for a thorough diagnosis--and often won't consider psychiatric referral.
And as society moves away from spirituality and rapidly towards science, many conventionally unexplainable experiences and conditions are simply medicated, with no end in sight.
I hope the
holographic paradigm of physics takes hold and ushers in a new understanding of How Things Work.