Is being Bipolar and Depressed the new medical epidemic of our time?

[Nirvana_Nut85]

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.

I beleive you both are correct. You speak with a doctor and advise them of any little symptom (especially walk in clinics) and they are ready to prescribe you an assortment of anti depressents. Then there are the attention seekers who now put on the act of being over depressed or fake schizophrenic symptoms in order for people to feel bad because their on medication without realizing the real damage they are doing.

Our water is seriously contaminated  and I would state that those who drink unfiltered tap water over long periods of time will probably develop anxiety/depression disorders,etc due to drugs in the water, high contents of heavy metal and the controversial flouride (which is a whole other subject). That is why I own a berkey water filtration system with the flouride filter.