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I have come across this very interesting article and it spoke about our generation being overpopulated with people taking medication for literally everything. I have to agree that we are a generation that can not deal with the simplest of things and situations. We tend to always want to find the easy way out. Looking for a bandaid or a quick fix to make everything okay. This is very scary to me because it has started with the adults and is progressing to children as young as a couple of months old.

People take medicine for depression, sleep disorders, and attention deficit disorder. Although there are people who truly do suffer immensely from these disorders and cant help it but take medication for it, but when the majority of the population thinks they have these disorders; thats where the problem starts. The article said that drug companies have pushed the selling of drugs through ads and commercials and have influenced people to believe they have some sort of disorder and thats how they sell their drugs.

My opinion on this topic is that we live in a country where we want to do everything and accomplish so much at one time that we will medicate ourselves just to get through the day. It has gotten so bad that we give medication to our hyper-active children to calm them down so that we dont have to deal with them while trying to accomplish our own personal tasks either at home or at work. Whatever happened to kids just being kids? Maybe these kids are over active because they seek attention from their parents. Instead of medicating these children and putting a medical label on them, why not try talking and spending time with them and find out the true problem. It might not be a disorder afterall.

My point in all of this is that we need to take time for ourselves and relax because Rome wasnt built in a day and we need to face that. For ourselves, our children, and future generations, we need to stop this over medication of society now because if we dont, we will become a country full of robots. We will keep taking medicine for every little thing we dont like about ourselves or cant deal with and we will be controlled by these pills and drugs. We will become a generation full of drug addicts.