What if you lived 100 years ago and a simple cold could have killed you because you wouldnt have any pills. Since the invention of medication the expectancy of life has skyrocketed.
People get hurt by pills when arent educated enough about what the one they are taking.
Like yourself you said you took ''vitamins'' and then you could eat everything. If you took vitamin C for example you wont have an increased apetite...that is caused in by B12 and Folic Acid.
Read the fu%$#% label before you take something and stop whining about pills making people sick.
And , as a psychologist, nothing makes me cringe more when i hear people ''if you are depressed then quit your job and stop being depressed''.
Stick to what you know please, because you sound stupid for a trained eye.
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I am totally with you... There are so many conditions which would lead to an early death without medication. Many disabilities today are only existent because people are too poor to have access to health care. Children in some countries die because there is no antibiotic to have. Today someone who is born with diabetes can live almost normal life; hundred years ago this disease was a death sentence. This does not mean the pharma industry is all good. Is a money driven industry, not a non-profit organization. Perhaps if it were, someone would have invented a cure for diabetes instead of making money with insulin, or a cure for arthritis instead of earning money through surgery. Nevertheless, I am happy to not have died with young age through scarlet fever thanks to our modern health care.
Medication is there to solve problems. Through extensive and costly testing, the side effects of the ones that make it are considered to be the "lesser of two evils" compared to what you're taking the medication for.
Yes, the industry is not the best, and in any for-profit business you will have some who value profit over any other moral aspect, but dismissing the whole industry just because of that is dumb.
It's like dismissing vaccines all together due to the potential side effects. The benefits of vaccination far outweighs the very few potential downsides, by an extreme margin.Although @Tszunami comes off a bit rough here, his message is pretty clear and should not be ignored by the rest of the people in this thread who seem to be really happy about this post.
The clue is, don't take what you don't need. Eat healthy, don't take medication just because you feel like it would help, take it in the cases where the doctor has told you to take it. If you have doubts about your doctor's advice, get another one and ask them what they think, but don't go google "is X medication really good for you?".
Every doctor is a human, and can be wrong. Just be critical, but don't be stupid or biased.
@Jerrybanfield you come off as someone who wants to tell that "medication is bad, just be healthy." While the obvious problem you seem to have had is that you weren't healthy to begin with.