A heavily critical report has called for a complete overhaul of the UK’s mental health services as the number of under-25s prescribed antidepressants passes 4 million.
As a proponent of psychedelics, this can't be the solution. The fact that 25% of the population is impacted enough to warrant a prescription is scary, but psychs won't fix it long term. The underlying societal issues need to be tackled.
As I heard Psychedelics can work great in terms of curing mental illnesses. But you're rright. When you have such an obvious Problem with mental health, you can't give everyone the stuff they need to be happy. Its fighting the symptoms, not the cause.
Take the pill and be a good, docile citizen. It's insane for me to think that a quarter of the UK has some sort of mental illness, that requires medication. Either this is a wild amount of overperscription, which wouldn't be that surprising, after having had some experience with the NHS; or things are very broken at a fundamental level.
Then again whenever you hear something about the UK in the news it is either some overbearing, authoritarian, conservative bullshit or some ultra liberal nonsense, there seems to be no middle ground. Lived there a few years and have no intention of going back.