Taking pharmaceuticals to remedy depression and/or anxiety symptoms comes with a long list of setbacks and side effects.

Dealing with insomnia, mass weight gain, and sexual impotence, for instance, all seem like a severe price to pay for improved mental health. But doctors prescribe us with these medications – and they’re the experts, right? 

It is becoming normal to live under intense stress and burnout, to overlook signs of depression, or to isolate but stay connected online – as if it were any good. 

Having mental problems so widespread inevitably means there’s something strange happening with society. Maybe it is social media. Or perhaps it is the hectic economic lives of everyone nowadays.