<blockquote>Quote<br><hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>Anonymous</b></i><br>Three decades ago, the head of one of the world's leading drug companies made some remarkably candid comments. Wishing his company was more like the chewing gum maker Wrigley's, the chief executive of Merck said it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people, and 'sell to everyone'. That dream now drives the marketing machinery of one of the most profitable industries on the planet.
Using their dominating influence in medical science, drug companies are marketing fear in order to re-define human illness. In alliance with company-friendly doctors and sponsored patient groups, the all-powerful pharmaceutical industry is helping to widen the very definitions of disease, in order to expand markets for its drugs.
With compelling clarity, Selling Sickness reveals how the ups and downs of daily life are becoming mental disorders, and common complaints are being transformed into frightening conditions. Shyness is Social Anxiety Disorder, PMS is a psychiatric illness called PMDD, and active children now have ADHD. As more and more ordinary people are turned into patients, drug companies move ever closer to that dream of selling to everyone.<hr></blockquote>
Although I agree that many times, plain things such as active children combined with parents who don't spank or disipline are said to be ADHD, there are instances where medication is nessesary. Now as far as what this post has to do with CF patients, who deal with the thought of fatality due to disease, I don't know. I suggest you push your views on a board where you may know a thing or two about what is going on. I didn't see anyone complain of PMS or the "ups and downs" of life and want medication. I am the original poster and I was simply asking because I started taking Zanax and was curious as to what other doses were. Although I feel no need to explain myself to you, I will to make my point. I also go to therapy along with speak to my minister, and combined with medicine, I can handle things that torment me. Thoughts of death, sickness, problems I burden on others, anxiety of having an emergency due to my illness, ect. Walk a mile in our shoes before throwing around bias comments about medication that helps many people.