SSRI – Birth of Modern Psychiatry
The above video explains how the pharmaceutical industry has largely “medicalized” many normal emotional states through the promotion of SSRI (Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor) drugs. While some people do benefit from such medications, for many, they produce severe side-effects and/or create personality changes that can be disturbing to the people taking the drugs and the people who know them.
In my opinion, SSRI drugs should be reserved for use in people who have difficulty functioning in day to day life and who have already unsuccessfully tried natural methods of controlling depression and anxiety (such as exercise, omega 3 fatty acids, 5-HTP, meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique, etc.).
The only other cases where SSRIs are justified, in my opinion, are in cases where there are signs of severe mental illness, such as in people who view videos like the one above and feel that the video is out of sync with the audio portion of the presentation. This is a very serious condition indeed, and generally requires institutionalization and often electro-convulsive therapy for any hope at all of recovery (I am of course joking, and although there were some technical issues with the above video, I thought that the information was worth sharing despite the technical issues).