For over two decades I have pointed towards modern medicines (especially anti-depressives) as one source of mental illness, which appears (sic) to be raging in Western Society.
But:
Blockbuster slimming jabs, depression , anxiety, risks of suicide,
omeprazole, betablockers, blood pressure drugs
Rimonabant-since withdrawn
Many more
John Naish, Daily Mail.
Now although I cannot vouch for the above, I suggest there are far more. In my work in counselling, I found that psychiatric drugs were responsible for a wide ranging number of conditions and appeared to insert thoughts that had no or little connection to theor lives or personalities. Once given a range of tranquillisers a patient would have violent thoughts.
Your suggestion that modern medicines, particularly anti-depressives, may be contributing to the prevalence of mental illness in Western Society resonates with my own views on the interconnectedness of body and soul. I believe that the health of the body and the health of the mind are intimately connected, and that an imbalance in one can have far-reaching consequences for the other.
A narrow focus on physical treatments alone neglects the more profound and complex factors that contribute to human flourishing.
I still need to look into the genetic changing of mice, which psychiatry bases its drug treatments on. If a mouse was genetically altered to be human, or exhibit human responses, a mouse would be human. If the changes are selected, given my knowledge of the effects of the drugs on human beings, their thinking and experiencing, interactive communication is necessary for proper understanding, otherwise psychiatry is as usual pulling a fast one on the general public and, of course, itself.
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