I was watching a documentary that touched on the rise in mental illness. It seems that in the desire to put us all in boxes that ordinary human emotions had to be categorised into mental conditions. There was a group of scientists who set out to prove that anyone could be taken into a mental hospital. They said that they were hearing voices and were promptly diagnosed as schizophrenics in each of the hospitals they went to. Modern diagnosis in that sense is a bit of a sham and I experienced this a while back when I diagnosed myself with a condition and got handed pretty strong medication. These days they are handing out pills to kids in America and mostly because the parents are too overworked and stressed to raise their kids properly. It isn't natural to send your kid away at the age of 3 or have 2 parents working full time and they wonder why the kid starts to play up. 'Must be mentally ill, let's put him on uppers and downers!'. Oh dear!

Modern life puts more pressure on people than in the past and in an age of consumerism and selfish desires, people are programmed to feel bad about themselves. I think it is harder to cope in such an unnatural cage, but I don't think it is so much that people are ill, it is the society that is making people jittery. Then they get put on anti depressants and pills. Society is warped as is the medical profession in this regard.