While there are plenty of legitimate chemical imbalances and need of therapeutic drugs pharmaceutics such as antidepressant, other psychiatric medications, antibiotics & pain meds are over prescribed. Poor diet and hormone imbalances are often overlooked The military won't take you if you are on antidepressants and it used to be if you where ever on Ritalin they wouldn't touch you ever!
-Perhaps the whining on this board is appropriate alternative therapy
Things could be worse you could be the other 45% of the worlds population lives in extreme poverty in S*&^ holes like this and these are lucky ones!
Another 30% live on the edge of extreme poverty.