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Miscortes, thanks for the feedback on this SHARE. From my professional perspective I am not surprised at the data. The answer may well be the result of a healthcare model enamored with drugs, a society brainwashed by glamorous drug marketing campaigns that promote "quick fixes" or happy pills to numb ourselves from the real world.

Most doctors (except for mental health providers) are not trained on handling mental-health conditions when a patient first shows up at their office. The safest thing to do for that doctor is probably prescribe the drug. Women have been misdiagnosed as having "stress-related symptoms" for years by their regular doctors if you recall that. Now, if the patient is referred to a Psychiatrist more than likely the patient will also end up with a drug because is what psychiatrists are trained to do unless the patient ends up with a more holistic provider that embraces other treatment modalities.

The data shared here does not specify if those numbers were "wrong diagnoses". I would assume that some may be linked to chemical imbalances in the brain and drugs may be appropriate. But our society in general is overdrugging people and latest data includes teenagers.

Sometimes I wonder if poor nutrition, environmental factors such as unhealhty life style factors, belief systems (or lack of) in fast pace societies like the US are THE root cause. We have gone too far!

April 6, 2009 - 10:08pm

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