One of the sad things is how politicized that the whole process has become. Because of the way that both private and public health providers are roped into the necessitiy of having to "prove" how relevant their treatment and our illnesses are, almost every illness and every treatment has to go through a gnereal PR campaign before it and it's treatment it even ok'd as a "real" illness or a real treatment. If it were just to sort out the charletains, I wouldn't be so upset, but it really has turned into a glut of "evidenced based" medicine that really isn't, but just looks that way for the media and the politicians who are pushing it. They don't really care how to read the studies, they don't really care that some studies are based on only 9 subjects, if it fits their political direction, then it's "scientific " and "evidence" based. 30 years of professional experience is not. we are seeing whole functioning psych units turned upside down and turned into production lines based on this, and yes, the pharm. companies play a role, but only one of them. The rest is the eternal search for the easy answer...