Many people benefit from the use of drugs which affect their brain’s chemistry. There are some serious problems that prevent people from functioning in a normal (and sometimes safe) manner and thus they need something to help them along. But some people look to these mood-altering drugs as the answer to any little problem.
Human emotions are varied and turbulent sometimes, but they are a part of what makes us human. Before the pharmaceutical companies became deities in their own right, people dealt with their mood swings and unpleasant feelings as they came, accepting them as an integral part of existence. You got tough and dealt with whatever it was in life that was hard and you came out stronger because of it.
Nowadays, it is easy to just turn the part of the brain off that deals with whatever emotion you’re experiencing. If bad feelings don’t seem to suit you at a particular point in your life, you can drug-up and push them out of the way. It’s very easy to get back to “business as usual” by medicating one’s self into mediocrity.
What makes the phenomenon worse is that parents load their children up with these drugs as well. Any little problem that even remotely resembles ADD can fill a prescription. These poor kids never end up learning how to deal with their emotions because they barely have an idea of what the emotions actually are.
People need to take a step back and examine what’s going on. There is no reason to think of a negative emotion as something to be cured or suppressed – they are a part of being human and to avoid them is to suppress what it means to be alive.