hey. i'm glad you are here too. i'd imagine that one thing that it might pay to be careful about would be making sweeping claims about how medication doesn't help (for the reason that it might well help some individuals).

but i do find it refreshing to hear this side of things...

with the sales of xanax (marketed for panic) and then prozac (marketed for depression) the drug companies realised that the number one health problem they could make considerable money off was mental illness.

i suspect that political pressure (lobbying and the like) as well as ecomonic support to political organisations is one force that is behind the current over-optimistic attitude towards medications and the current under-estimations of other 'interventions' like increased social support.

another consideration is the lamentable biological reductionism (which is based on old - read 'bad' or 'outdated' philosophy of science).

i hope that in the future we will intervene more on the social level but i really don't hold out much hope given the political clout of the drug industry.

but that being said... if a few INDIVIDUALS grasp this it can certainly make their world / life better :-)