I think some people may well have something wrong that affects their mood/thinking/well-being but don’t need psychotropic drugs. Doctors get a lot of their treatment info from drug sales reps. Most don’t spend a lot of time trying figure out why a patient may not be sick/depressed, etc. They are conditioned to just write a prescription. Many people may in fact have solvable mental health issues if, as the author mentioned, they changed their diet, exercised, got other likely undiagnosed medical problems addressed, learned better coping skills. I could go on, but the real need gor these drugs was created, just as the need for the Covid vaxx that doesn’t work was created. Money.
May be—not: may not be
What you describe is indeed very common. My own mother, 20 years ago, her thyroid tanked. The doctor just put her on Prozac. After a few weeks, she went back to him demanding that he figure out the real problem. Eventually he did, but he didn’t even apologize for being so dismissive at first. He was just like, “Oh, it’s your thyroid.” He seemed irritated at having to do his job.