I agree with you.

While there are people who need medical care, we're to the point in our society where everything is a mental illness and requires treatment. Kids that fight with their parents are now labeled as having oppositional defiant disorder and put on meds. Again, I'm sure there are some very extreme cases here, but probably 90% of the cases are just kids who are going through the normal teenage rebellion as they find themselves. I fought with my mother constantly, and now we have a good relationship.

The medical profession needs to put and keep people on meds, and in the system. Big Pharma's goal is to get everyone on at least one med they have to take for the rest of their life so they have a continual income stream from those drugs. Blood pressure and cholesterol are how they trap middle-aged people, and most people don't know that suicide is linked to extremely low cholesterol. The medical profession has also changed the blood pressure ranges so more people fall into the range of needing to be on meds. They don't care about the nasty side-effects some of these meds cause like chronic coughing because the meds block the lungs ability to utilize a certain enzyme. This is what happened to my husband. He got put on one of these meds, and within 2 days sounded like he'd smoked 4 packs of cigarettes for 40 years when he's never smoked a day in his life. Had I not realized it was a side-effect, I would have insisted he have a lung X-ray. He went off the meds as he was coughing so bad he couldn't sleep.

The other thing that kills me about the medical profession is that doctors aren't trained to match symptoms to causes like nutritional deficiencies but to drugs. They aren't building your health up, they're managing your disease.

Trauma medicine is fabulous, and has saved thousands of peoples' lives. I commend people who work in that.