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theprof00 on 29 March 2013
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Porcupine_I said:
Psyberius said:
Porcupine_I said:
i think hypochondria is the medical epidemic of our time


Don't believe ALL of that.  It's the doctors who are padding their wallets with nonstop patients and their "chronic ailments that need prescriptions monthly".

Are you aware of all of the drugs that are not filtered before going into city water supplies?  How does that make you feel that someone had a prescription, their body didn't metabolize it so it was either urinated or pooped into the sewers, not filtered before released into the water supply and then some water supplies down river picking those drugs up and passing them to their users.  It happens!

Serious amounts of Valium show up in many rivers and quite a few fish species are losing their regular behaviors like evading bigger fish/spawning properly because of this?

i am not sure what you trying to say with that. but i agree that it is good business for doctors to treat patients weather they need treatment or not.

but to elaborate what i wanted to say is that i feel like there are more and more people feel to be "entiteled" to have some kind of mental disease so they can go on and feel sorry for themselves. but i am not trying to say the diseases don't exist at all.

The thing is, you can't just blame those people....everyone does it in some form or another.
It's like cigarettes. People say don't smoke it's bad for you. While that's true, EVERYONE self-medicates, whether it be food, prescription drugs, addictions like videogames/sex/gambling.

The point is, sure, there are a lot of people who blame foibles on mental illness, and use it as a crutch, but everyone does it; Whether they use a crutch such as a broken bone, some shadowy aggressor out to get them, bad bosses, some dude who pushed them in the bus that morning. Everyone makes excuses for their missteps. It's just easy to isolate this excuse because, while us normal people can say "yeah, a bad boss encounter can ruin your day", it's hard for us to imagine thinking completely differently. That is why so many ads about autism and aspergers and mental illness focus on explaining how it feels, like "it feels like being awake for 48 hours and then taking a math test you haven't studied for", or social anxiety disorder feels like being on camera in times square during new years, when you're really just in a library.