by Stephen B.

Created on: July 26, 2008

The longer time goes on it is only obvious that mental health is all about belief. The belief that in the brain someone either believes they have a problem or they believe that their doctor is totally full of it.

Of course there are extreme cases where individuals have severe depression, but for the other 99 percent of people there is only how much they believe is wrong with them. People in everyday society have forgotten what it means to be a human by shoveling pills down their throats to prevent natural human emotions that everyone experiences. Anxiety, depression, lack of focus, anger, and confusion are all natural. Those emotions are so natural that people have been feeling them since the beginning of thought and no doctor of kind can fix that with some magic tablet ingested daily for a hundred dollars a month.

If a doctor tells his patient that he has clinical depression and assigns the patient some kind of medication without changing the diet, increasing exercise, or just smacking some sense into the patient; then that doctor is just looking to get that money he/she receives from the drug companies every time he/she hands out a prescription. And since when did general health practitioners get the right to hand out mental health pills like benzodiazepines, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)? It only seems questionable that they should opt to change diet which can solve almost all health problems including mental health issues before hanging on some kind of pills.

People don't have the ability to make sound judgments for themselves anymore because they've been told that doctors know what's best for them. Most people follow the advice of their doctors with blind faith and never question them about their intentions. Question everything. Question everyone. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Now, it could be said that mental health is really caused by someone's environment and home situation, but again people have to start realizing that they are never going to do something in regular day to day life that hasn't already been done a million times. Regular life is not a great mystery, but rather something that people have gotten through for thousands of years before anyone had Xanax or Prozac.

Mental health is the outcome that everyone comes up with for themselves every time they look in the mirror and either sees a person that is out to live life and let it soak in and take them on a marvelous journey or just a wall that can never be climbed. In all honesty, no one is that special that they live this exclusively hard life since most of these mentally unhealthy people are from middle and upper class backgrounds.

The next you are confronted yourself in the mirror, look into your eyes and realize that you aren't the first or last person to live life, and if they can do it you can do it to. There is no pill for pushing yourself up to a level that makes you feel that good. Or even that mentally healthy.

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