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Is mental illness caused by drug use?

So many young people have disturbing delutions these days, so many people regardless of age have mental illness these days. There's not enough funding and not enough research being done to figure out why the rates are so high?

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greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

The "rates" don't matter; the apparent rise in mental disorders is happening because drug companies put pressure on the medical professionals to create new pathological labels for any condition they've got a drug for; for instance, people who are now labelled with "social anxiety disorder" used to be called "very shy." Pathologizing and then drugging people to deal with their life problems is an unfortunately growing trend. Drug companies love it for the profits; when they can pathologize a condition and then sell a drug for it, they get very rich by creating a whole new "disease" or "disorder". People in general like it because they are now seen more sympathetically by others; it's not their fault, they have a disorder.