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I think there's a good argument that can be made that some substantial percentage of the
depression epidemic is manufactured by the medical/pharmaceutical industry. You know,
I think that industry has successfully convinced many people that ordinary sadness is really
a biochemical abnormality in the brain that should be treated with drugs. I don't know
what that percentage is, but let's say it's substantial, if we remove that I think it
still leaves us with a great deal of unexplained depression. Why has this increased so much,
in say the past fifty years, and that's happened in all western industrialized countries, but
it's particularly bad in the U.S. So all I can say is that some of it is manufactured
and we should be very suspicious of attempts to tell us that ordinary emotional states
are pathological. But it is a real question is why so many people today are depressed.