[PrtzlLogic]

Yes, sorry, I should have specified that I was referring to the "magic pill" patients, not to ALL patients. Specifically: doctors are too quick to prescribe a pill when other solutions are possible (and necessary). ("Oh, you're having a rough month? Here, take some drugs.")

I realize other solutions are not possible for every patient.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I agree...tooo many doctors treating unhappiness like it was depression....

To be happy, you need to do the right things.

Our culture is not encouraging that enough.

Therefore, we want a magic pill instead of doing the right things, cause the right things would interfere with something else we want to do.

And we want instant gratification, to boot.

What a strange world we live in.

My advice to most people is to throw away their TV, listen to their kids, put their family on the high priority track, and learn to be grateful. Sure changes your outlook on life!