dobby985 said:
Rainbird said:
Medicin isn't a bad thing, it helps people around the world on a daily basis with results that are hard to reach with other means.
But I noticed an ad campaign today for some headache medication, like "Don't forget to use our product when things are weighing down on your head", with images of people being weighed down by work, complicated family situations and all that.
But why are we treating it this way? Isn't this completely the wrong way to go about it? The headache in this case is a symptom of your lifestyle.
Is your work giving you headaches? Take some medication!
Is your family giving you headaches? Take some medication!
We're curing the symptom rather than the disease! It makes no sense!
Are people so blind to their own life styles that they think medication is the right solution? I know changing your life style can be hard, and maybe you want to keep your current lifestyle, even though it's bad for you. But I don't understand why anyone thinks this is a good idea.
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Painkillers cure the symptoms of an illness like headaches, aches & pains, fever etc... I don't see anything wrong with numbing the pain while your immune system takes care of the illness itself.
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Pain killers tend to tell your body to ignore the pain and since you may not feel the pain chances are you will continue to do what is causing the pain and thus make it worse or still have the pain when the pain killer wears off. If you are in pain it is best to treat the cause not the symptoms. That is the problem with most medicine, it cures sympotns not sources of illness/pain.
