Most pharmaceuticals are bad. If it's synthetic don't eat it. (or smoke it) Look at the sulfa drugs we took for years - paba, I could go on. I guarantee you that the synthetic drugs we take today will reveal their true effects only in our death statistics. I mean have you noticed the side effects warnings on most modern drug ads? (with the careful staging of semi-legal advertising) Most of them are listing hideous side effects for some kind of silly and trivial relief. I still don't trust any antibiotic but penicillin. (and its a last resort at that)
Life is painful. (How else would you know you are alive?)
Srictly cannabinoids, caffeine and naturally sourced alkaloids for me! Anything else is not natural and has an inherent risk.
It's not so much that we don't use the other 90% of our intellect - we deny and fear it.
I'd take a depressive diagnosis with a grain of salt, the fact is the world today is depressing - way I figure if you're not depressed these days there's something wrong with you or you are in heavy denial.
Artificial happiness is just that. Once we address the societal ills we all deny, the imagined need for such drugs will disappear.
(I hope I haven't offended you, I just felt like a good rant on the topic!
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