There Is No Pill Strong Enough

Sometimes I can't help myself but jump to conclusions. Every time someone says they're sick the automatic reply seems to be to take a pill. This so prevalent I can't decide if this is a result of successful marketing by Pharmaceuticals or our need to believe there is more to life and that next pill could be the red one.

Growing up it tended to be my Dad who decided how I would be cured of the common cold or headache. Invariable it always entailed eating something with protein and going to bed. It didn't matter what time of day or if I just woke up. You would have to lay in bed doing nothing except trying to sleep or reading a book. Being a sickly child you can imagine how many books I managed to read.

I digress. My main point is I was raised to not take pills except in extreme circumstances. Net result is in spite of growing up sick every month my immune system at 30 seems infinitely healthier then my friends and colleagues. I still get sick every other month but really notices because I don't fall over helpless at the slightest pain and complain until I've swallowed the latest miracle drug. Even better I'm usually better and fully recovered the next day. If it's an especially bad cold or flu I take NyQuil, but only as a way to force a good night's rest.

In the interest in full disclosure my Mom takes pills like their is no tomorrow. She's been taking them for so long and so often that she has an unhealthy tolerance to most pain killers. A tolerance I inherited, making medicine like Tylenol obsolete. Even when I got the stomach flu and they fed me a prescription pain killer and Demerol, they were in-effective. It took Codeine to make me finally not care about the pain.So all of this may just be my experience with in-effective drugs, but I don't think so. To this day I prefer to not take anything unless I'm truly impaired.

In way our society has become completely dependent on drugs. We think everything can be cured using a little red pill. Whether it is ADHD or depression, we go searching for the immediate gratification that makes our problems not our fault. No one seems to realize the drug isn't curing anything but delaying the results, admittedly delaying to the point where it no longer matters. A child how doesn't pay attention in class but manages to play 15 hours of video games or an entire weekend playing in the woods does not have ADHD. That an adult hates their job, can't find someone to love, feels they've missed out on life, and has no reason to keep living is problem with perspective. These are all things that would be better worked out talking to friends and family or even a psychologist.

This constant taking of medication only destroys our immunity. Stop taking something every time you don't feel happy and actually solve your problems. In the end a simple readjustment of priorities may be all it takes to turn a clinically depressed person into someone who is happy 24/7.
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