Anxiety, ADHD, and Bipolar Disorders

It is estimated that more than 1 out of every 5 American adults live with a mental illness, and 85% of them are on prescription medications. What's even more shocking is that only 10% of these individuals received counseling or therapy!

It's not just adults, either:

• A staggering 50% of adolescents are estimated to have a mental disorder.

• 10% of these adolescents are treated with psychotropic medication.

• Of adolescents with mental disorders, over 20% of them struggle with severe impairment.

Among these individuals, the most common mental disorders being treated are anxiety, depression, ADHD, and bipolar disorder.

What’s causing this, you ask?

According to the Mayo Clinic, the top 3 reasons listed for causes of mental illness are:

1. Inherited Traits

2. Environmental Exposures Before Birth

3. Brain Chemistry

Well, if that’s true, and if the average person suffering from a mental disorder saw these as the causes, I’d bet they would feel screwed, because:

• Since when can you change your inherited traits?!

• You certainly can't do anything about the environment you were in before you were born!

• And what the hell can you do about brain chemistry?!? Seems like you’d need medication for that.

If these are indeed the causes of mental disorders, then here’s the only reasonable conclusion:

The problem and dysfunction fall directly on the individual suffering from the disorder.

They simply have bad genes. Mom was too stressed out when she was pregnant with these individuals, and their brains got messed up.

In other words—according to Mayo Clinic—the person is essentially broken.

Somehow, prescription medicine is always the most convenient solution

What I find most fascinating is that the reasons for mental illness, as listed by the most prestigious medical institution in the world, are all things that strongly imply the need for prescription medications.

This may explain the insane statistic that 85% of adults with mental disorders are treated with medications.

Not to mention that these medications—which claim to balance brain chemistry (one of the listed causes)—don’t seem to be very effective at treating the underlying issues that cause imbalanced brain chemistry in the first place.

What medication does effectively, it seems, is allow people to “live” with the unfortunate reality of being broken.

There is something SERIOUSLY wrong here.

In this article, I’m going to share why I do not believe there is ANYTHING “wrong” with the majority of individuals suffering from mental disorders.

I think these individuals are more RIGHT than anything.

My goal is to share a perspective that empowers those who may be suffering from these “disorders” so they have other options besides “living with it.”