And the media circus continues with advertising all over consumer run boards like we don't get enough of it via other avenues such as TV. And it drives people searching for that magical diagnosis, you know, that magical diagnosis that will give them access to the magical pill. And one of the ads says 'is your depression really a symptom of bi-polar?' You just know they ask this because their company makes mood stabilisers and they are just trying to pick up the business. Designer drugs where psychiatrists often have little more to go on than the consumer and when the consumer pressure for taking x (because it looks so pretty on the ads) can be unbearable. I mean you don't want to risk your clients being unsatisfied, do you now?

Advertising makes me feel sick... I don't really watch TV because I don't want to be exposed to that (though I've been a bit slack lately). When you aren't used to ads its remarkable how much they get to you. But of course they get to us all really... That is precisely why they spend the money they do on them.

Don't get me wrong I appreciate this site has to cost money to host. I also appreciate that even if a profit is made a lot of time must go into running / maintaining it.

But they ads get to me, yeah they do. And I'm not at all convinced they are helpful or beneficial to consumers... To be seen to condone them to be seen to tolerate their presence and their hyperbolic claims etc.

Anyway just my 2 cents worth. I had fairly much the same thing in more readable fashion but seems a song that topped the charts in Australia is considered to political to post... I didn't need the politics... It was the commentary on medical advertising that I wanted to illustrate the point.