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Things like Facebook, YouTube, and Reality TV spawned a new generation of people constantly wired.
We've become a society obsessed with information and "voyeurism" and in the process lost some of our footing.
How can we get it back? Does the answer lie in prescription medication or are we doomed to become addicts from the mental band-aids we call "psych meds"? The news reports on a regular basis some sort of crime involving prescription medication.
If it's not a pain-killer heist or barbiturate suicide, it's a prescription drug ring.
Why is it that legal drugs are making people do illegal, harmful things? Perhaps it's the way people use drugs to deal with their problems.
There's always going to be some kind of problem in one's life.
With the current economic climate forecasting trouble up ahead, and the natural disasters, it's no wonder everyone's on edge.
"It's the end of the world" people claim.
In fact there have been dozens claiming a certain time and date when the world will cease to be.
Obviously we're still here and those people's claims were wrong.
The sad truth is what became "apocalyptic" is the inability we've developed to face what scares us.
Fear itself is a kind of drug.
It puts a veil on what you want and keeps you on edge so much so that you can't even function from day to day.
Then here come the psych meds: Prozac, Lexapro, Zoloft, don't forget to throw in some Ambien and Klonopin to get you to sleep.
These guys are supposed to be the magic pill that'll rescue you from the dark place in your mind, or just give you a good night's rest.
That's what people think when they start taking them.
Are they really helping you? It has been proven that medications for mental health indeed helped patients deal with issues like anxiety and depression.
What needs to be made more clear is that medication in combination with cognitive behavioral therapy can produce the positive results we so crave.
Most people don't need medication to alleviate chronic symptoms, but can use it to achieve better results through therapy on a short-term basis.
By facing the fear itself and learning to cope with it will there be relief, not by numbing the reactions with pills.
Pills should only be used (unless you have a physical, chronic condition) for a short term.
Short-term basis is equivalent to 6 months to a year, though some have gone on further.
It helps you with your current symptoms but your body doesn't become too used to it, especially if you don't increase dosage.
The problem is people are on medication for much longer than one year.
The reason that may be is because the patients have become reliant on the drugs to function.
Instead of using the pills as an assistant aide rather than the main help, they've grown to not be able to live without it.
This is where it needs to stop.
It's bad enough people are addicted to cocaine and crack.
To see people addicted to pills is sad.
We have a choice in this issue and we can choose to face our fears or let it devour us.
Say no to dependence and find your courage.
Article by: Rosemary Jasmine Rivera
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