Why does everyone have a 'disease' nowadays?

Why do people have so many "opinions" on other people nowadays?
Why do people feel the need to stick their nose in so much nowadays?

ComfortKid wrote: »

What kind of a statement is that to make? People have opinions on everything since forever, otherwise we would still be living as neanderthals. We just have ways of sharing our opinions now.
I certainly didn't say no one has depression, just that doctors are VERY quick to diagnose it with doing any tests. I have first hand experience of this.

A doctor is a professional who knows exactly what they are doing and knows a lot more than some internet psychology "skeptic"

ComfortKid wrote: »

Are you actually for real? It's a well known fact that doctors are over prescribing xanx and valum up and down the country, and alot of the time these people don't need em. As I said, I have first hand experience of miss diagnosed depression.

Your experience is relevant to you and no others

iguana wrote: »

They could start by doing a basic medical check up on anyone who reports depression like symptoms before handing out mood altering medication.

Firstly apologies for truncating your posts. I'm replying to to all of just don't want people having people to scroll like mad.:)

That's exactly what they SHOULD do. Doctors, like car mechanics, come in all different sorts. I could write horror stories on some of my experiences! Unfortunately in the case of doctors it's peoples' bodies that are on the line. Any symptom or illness, can themselves be a symptom of another illness. A patient could have been depressed because they were anaemic and anaemic because of another underlying condition e.g cancer, lupus, IBD. etc. Treat the underlying cause and the symptoms might go away. It's important to point out though that while the underlying condition is being treated - or ye to be diagnosed - the other symptoms may still persist. In this scenario it's probably still best for the symptoms to be treated (even if it's in essence only a cosmetic fix). The reason being that depression, anaemia, whatever, left untreated usually leads to further complications again. My GP has explained to me that in medicine his first port of call is to treat symptoms that present while ruling out possible underlying causes. Obviously something like cancer being rare isn't something that's going to be on their radar initially (not without some physical indications of concern anyway) but as you rightly stated a series of common blood checks is bloody obvious! That is of course assuming that they don't have a high degree of confidence in what their diagnosis is.

Mental health is a stickler. The idea is to move towards brain scans, blood tests, adrenal testing, and cognitive therapies. When they'll actually get there is anyone's guess. Any illness, be it mental or physical, has both physical and mental manifestations. Far too often medical practitioners ignore those outside their discipline.

TwoGallants wrote: »

I disagree. The hippie schools encourage creativity and individuality, two traits that will be more or less immune to the technological changes that will transform the workplace over the coming decades - but as I say, this probably merits a different thread, so I'll leave it at that.

Also, any education system that embraces normal human variation rather than treating it as a pathology has a lot going for it, I think.

Society isn't built that way. Nor is any modern economy. School and education in general gears us towards the 'safer' career paths. Not an occupation where you'll make a bomb. Just an occupation where'll you be able to survive with a decent enough quality of life. The reason that we can't all be novellists or individuals or artists or whatever profession you ascribe here is because creativity's payoff is based on population inversion. One singer needs a few thousand listeners. Regardless of whether there is only 10 singers, or 1 million, they still need a desired number of listeners to make their living. The problem is that the more singers you have the more dilution of listeners that will generally take place. To put it simply, if everyone was a career dependent singer, no one would ever make money from singing. Regardless of the number of singers, only a very small percentage will ever be in a position to make a career out of the discipline. That's the way the discipline works. Same for comedians, novelists, actors etc. These are niche areas where most people who try simply will not make it. Success stories may serve to motivate others, people should always chase their dreams but they should be realistic about their expectations. Most artists of any kind make sweet fck all money - and technology, or lack thereof, won't change that.

ComfortKid wrote: »

Are you actually for real? It's a well known fact that doctors are over prescribing xanx and valum up and down the country, and alot of the time these people don't need em. As I said, I have first hand experience of miss diagnosed depression.

Got a source for this 'fact'? The consensus of the information I've read indicate otherwise. All I'm aware of that exists is a journalist "investigation" where a journalist gave almost carbon copy explanations of the symptoms of depression. A bit like me walking into a GP and giving carbon copy explanations of a heart attack and wondering if their initial diagnosis will be anything other than an urgent ECG and possible referral to A&E.

ComfortKid wrote:

Up john 90s is the name written on a 90mg xanx tablet. I can assure you people will do anything to get high.

Then call it Xanax, yes there are people conning their way into getting these medicines but it's an insult to people who genuinely need them. Guess I'm lucky to have a decent GP. When I turn up totally overwhelmed with the world he won't just give me anything. But he does listen to me.