ugh. so much going on with what you're discussing. I don't like how now everybody is encouraged to hand all aspects of our lives over to "experts," especially doctors. Experts tell parents how to raise their kids, experts tell couples how to stay together, experts tell us what's "really going on" and what pills we are to take, for how long, etc.

I'm tired of it, personally. Part of it is profit, medicalizing problems and then selling pills. Part of it...I dunno...I think now, families split up a lot, communities have largely disintegrated, people...would rather listen to a "mental health expert" than a minister, rabbi, priest, or even...a friend. Oh, wait..."friend." I"m blessed to have a real, genuine friend now. Did you know that something like 25% of people in America don't even have 1 real, genuine friend they can sit down with and have a real conversation with? This in the age of Facebook, when seemingly everyone has dozens of "friends" keeping tabs on them.

I don't think its going to get much better. Not to sound too Marxist, but I think part of it is that we're a hyper-indvidualistic culture and now the economy has tanked. We are taught to think of this world as a bunch of individuals, and ignore social factors. Now, lots of people are unemployed, underemployed, disillusioned, stuck at demanding jobs w/ stagnant wages, and...predictably, Mental Health, Inc. has more and more labels for everybody, along with pills and shock and talk and...and...and...