dost thou truly needeth thine pharmacopoeia?

The Virgin Queen denounces the industrial-strength drug-pushers:

We are at a point in this country where any kind of negative emotional state - negative being defined as anything that interferes with our ability to be good little consumers - is provocation for the family doctor to whip out the prescription pad for large doses of mind-altering substances. Antidepressants are for people who are so profoundly depressed that no other method can shake them out of it and who are in imminent danger of commiting suicide; while this was their original intent, it is now used to treat inferior personality traits from shyness in children to "unnatural" moodiness and introspection. Psychiatrists pathologize normal mood states and call them diseases, the only cure for which are drugs.

"Social anxiety disorder" didn't exist a few years ago, but drug companies and shrinks needed a wider market for their cash cows and they took it upon themselves to invent it. Social anxiety disorder is nothing more than severe awkwardness, shyness, and being hyper self-aware...

Kids with mediocre intelligence have "learning disabilities" because rich parents can't stand the thought that their precious darlings aren't geniuses (no one is just slow anymore). Very often the drugging that takes place is due to parental hysteria over their child not performing in school the way they want them to, and they can't think of any other solution. The supreme value is to get them functional and compliant again without adressing any of the underlying problems that their child might be going through, including spiritual and intellectual crises that simply cannot be medicated for...

The vast majority of people taking these drugs are merely covering up normal problems that they can't figure out how to deal with - and why should they know, when the entire focus of the mental health field is to discredit methods that they don't get as handsomely reimbursed for as Prozac?