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Who says you're depressed or anxious? Pfizer does.
Over the 30 years that I’ve been in clinical practice, I've become increasingly disturbed by the creeping medicalisation of human suffering. Life, as the Buddha pithily put it, is suffering. All cultures, throughout human history (and presumably, prehistory), have simply accepted suffering as an inevitability, and have developed religious practices and philosophical teachings to help people come to terms with, make sense of, and ultimately to transcend, their suffering. All cultures, that is, until the mid-twentieth century in the secular West, when a series of chance discoveries led to the development of the first drug ever marketed as an antidepressant, iproniazid.
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