Emma wrote on Oct 7
th, 2014 at 12:42am:
Freedumb wrote on Oct 6
th, 2014 at 9:12pm:
A lot of mental illness is about business and marketing.
Do you consider being angry a mental illness? Isn't it a natural instinct/emotion that occurs in our lives?
I'm asking because I know too many people who have been prescribed Seroquel (sedative/anti-psychotic) for simply just being angry all of the time, with no symptoms of the dreaded bi-polar and schizo spectrum (which it is being used to treat).
It is also a very expensive medication (if one doesn't have benefits).
If you refer to huge multi-nat drug companies pursuing and persuading GP's to medicate with THEIR product.. ?? I'd agree.
But sadly
as you suggest .. much of this product placement has nothing at all to do with real mental illness. It is simply a good 'business model' to promote products that bring in millions $.
None of these promoters of drugs (legal) are actually concerned for their customers.. they are concerned about their profit. The motivator is greed, not caring. Altho I won't paint all their researchers and product developers as so unethical.. no ... they are also victims of the big DRUG companies.. At least.. I'll give them the credit of doubt.
But the CEOs.. the Boards..? they are ALL liable.
Mental illness?? I'd suggest.... ?
We live in a world of insanity. WE created it. We are generally insane.
How else explain the dominance of sociopaths and psychos in world govt.?
We are slowly and painfully doing away with ourselves.
The torture, the wars. The violence. the rape and death of millions thru genocide, starvation, and disease.. it is there every day on the telly.. in fact the media seem to glory in the death and destruction of human life.
Is this sane.? No I don't think so. We revel in the blood and death... OH yes we do.. Abbott has risen in the polls because he has committed to killing people.
So.. it is no surprise that insanity is endemic.
When our politicians and law enforcement start to exhibit this same irrationality, we know we are doomed.
And in our secret heart of hearts .. we know this true.
You are correct. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, etc, most of the people working in these fields genuinely care, and probably unaware about the marketing factor that plays into it (with prescription meds).
My interpretation of "mental illness" is really just a symptom of our society. We live in a chaotic world, and people who are incompatible with the atrocities, who actually care for life, get driven up the wall from it all, and become "sick".
These corporate pigs know this, and have figured out a way to profit from it, yet again. They have numerous ways of profiting from a sick society, the original tactic was war.
I am happy that yourself, and many others, can see what's really going on behind the veil. Sadly, most people don't see it because they're caught up in their stressful lives, or simply don't care and adopt the same traits as the few that rule. There may be a small group of us, but we can only try to make the world a better place