The doctors' job is to diagnose people's illnesses. They get money for medicating people. However, there are definite procedures and thresholds that separate physical health and illness.
Not so for mental health. Without any incentive to diagnose perfect health and without any way to mechanically prove health, doctors are bound to have a bias for false positives.
I am not saying that the doctors are at fault. But doctors are rewarded for finding illnesses, not curing them. Sad.
As someone who suffers some psychological issues... I sometimes wonder whether it's the result of our consumer-whoring-omg-think-of-the-children-be-vewey-afraid society than drugs/exercise. I mean, are you really going to be all you can when people are condescending towards you because you don't have an iPhone? Shit, what are they going to be like if they ever heard what I've been through scaredhidesruns away
If people are condescending towards you because you don't have an iPhone, I think you should try to find other people to be around. Running away is the correct response. :) It's easier said than done, of course.
Here's another reason - people are rich. If you have no slack, you just work every day to put food on the table.
Having decent resources, but expectations that you will put those resources to work, and being fed conflicting values as to what success actually means (as well has how to achieve it) can send you; well; crazy.
* people eat shit
* people don't exercise, not even a little, like walking a couple of miles
* doctors are too eager to medicalise everything so that they can put you on drugs