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Important! Brainwashing By TV, Are Drug Ads Misleading?

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In our consumer culture, it is gospel that we must be taught to consume as much as possible for the greatest common good; i.e. of course stuffing our pocketbooks with cash. While our children are raised by strangers or worse, other kids, we can fill our houses up with stuff we have no time to use.

The “Good News” is that Madison Avenue has found a way to make more money for those poor pharmaceutical companies; which is to make every single one of us neurotic, pill popping, needy, geeks.

Did you know depression can be good for you to go through, briefly? It’s true, like a snake shedding its skin, we are compelled to face issues, make changes and initiate fresh starts because of the pain of our temporary conditions. I have worked with adolescents for years and there are few that didn’t clearly exhibit genuine signs of depression. I also watched the majority of them come through it beautifully without benefit of drugs.

Have you listened to the depression pharmaceutical ads recently? They warn you to be careful if you have suicidal thoughts (especially adolescents). Trying to stop what might have been a temporary, painful symptom to endure, could end in suicide. Let me say that I know intimately some who are on antidepressants, or who really should be, and I fully support that.

Are you aware that taking prescriptions that remove important symptoms can create more serious problems down the line? You remove the pain that is your body’s warning system and you wind up taking five more prescriptions to get rid of the side effects of your meds while your original condition becomes more serious.

Women taking birth control pills so that they only menstruate 4 times a year? Tell me that one isn’t going to end in disaster! Let the body do what it is supposed to do. Stop trying to make your body like a new smart phone. You need healthy food, sleep, and as little interference as possible from the Madison Avenue Doctors.