Medicalising everyday life doesn't help anyone's mental health
I wonder about this as well. I see lists of anxiety symptoms shared and I meet every one of them, but I don&#x27;t consider myself to have anxiety. Isn&#x27;t it normal to be anxious in stressful situations or to be depressed when things are going poorly. Then I do some reading about it and I wonder maybe its not normal, maybe I&#x27;m not supposed to feel this way.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are people with mental health conditions that do need treatment, I won&#x27;t argue that at all. I do think pinning down what is &quot;normal&quot; and should be just waited out and what is abnormal and should be medically treated, although easy at the extreme edges, is very difficult in the middle of the spectrum.<p>I agree with the article that we are trying to narrow the normal distribution of human traits by medicalising things that are a common occurrence for at least a subset of the population. I&#x27;m not sure where this stems from though. Is it the desire for extreme corporate efficiency and competition for resources. Is it a misguided medical system trying to make patients out of more people? Like anything sufficiently complicated its probably a huge confluence of factors.