“Mental Health Awareness Is Backfiring: New Science Shows How ‘Helpful’ Campaigns Are Manufacturing Illness”
Sounds like this ‘awareness’ campaign is getting EXACTLY what they wanted...more customers. Reminds me of the drug for “Restless Leg Syndrome” - they invent the drug (whether it does anything is not the point), but then they need an ‘illness’ to go along with it...so they invent that too.
“Restless Leg” is real, I can tell you. 100%. And nothing seems to really help at all short of opioids. And if you don’t want to be debilitated by opioids, there are few to no good options, even if you might stumble across some combination of drugs that seem to help even peripherally.
I understand why you might use that as an example, and this post is not meant to chasten you.
But I do feel that if you knew directly someone who has it, you might have a different take on including that as an example. It is very real and can be debilitating. I have a person close to me who can no longer travel by plane or distances of more than an hour or two by car, and sleeps only a few hours at night. She has tried every remedy and every drug regimen except opioids, which have been offered but which she has denied.
Just saying. That isn’t saying that there are people out there who need a condition like that to use as an emotional crutch (just as there are indeed people who claim a “learning disability” or any other mental conditions to explain away their own behavior) but keep in mind that there are people who do have this condition.
Believe me, if you knew someone intimately who battled this condition on a daily basis for decades, you would think (as I do, on a daily basis) “Thank God I do not have whatever causes that.”
As you can see from my post at #30 BTW, I do agree largely with your premise, but also illustrates that point that people are suffering from various things that while exploited by drug companies, do absolutely exist.