Clinical medical illness is often fabricated. Most of the research and analysis and awareness is also funded by the companies that sell the drugs. Calling ADD or Depression &quot;mental illness&quot; is asserting that it&#x27;s not normal and is a treatable illness randomly encountered - it&#x27;s almost often a factor of your environment and psychology.<p>It&#x27;s interesting that the Ketamine research comes to the conclusion that depression is not a mental imbalance but is a product of the environment causing structural changes in the brain - this seems more in line with what eg ADD and Depression ACTUALLY are - it&#x27;s not that I can&#x27;t focus because I caught something from my neighbour - I can&#x27;t focus because I&#x27;m berated with stimuli and I can&#x27;t pick just one thing to focus on. I&#x27;m not depressed because my brain isn&#x27;t producing enough seratonin, it&#x27;s because I&#x27;ve been wore down supressing my wants and needs and extended myself trying to make other people happy or overstimulated myself or whatever.<p>We don&#x27;t know but the picture is getting clearer - depression isn&#x27;t a common cold that you need drugs for - it&#x27;s more like liver disease caused from chronic drinking. Stop drinking, and let your liver recover only science just barely understands the processes of the psyche and environment that cause those physical changes in the brain yet.<p>Addiction itself is very much an obvious facet - it&#x27;s not a degenrate behavior but a degenerative structural change to the brain that cause inner behavioral and perceptual changes that need a physical restructuring of the brain to overcome.<p>It will take time but science will get clearer. The problem is that there are many motives - the whole &quot;sitting is the new smoking&quot; awareness is evidence that we focus on the wrong things - why is this just coming out now? because there is no profit motive to fund that research.