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I've never really been a fan of taking pills, I've always been a bit suspicious of how the pharmaceutical industry offers a cure for something and at the same time gives you something else. Anxiety? take a pill and it will give you diarrhea or a heart attack. It just doesn't make sense to me.
I'm not going to lie. A couple of years ago when I had a surgery Tynelol 3 saved me from a lot of pain, but still, I hesitate whenever I am faced with the choice of taking a pill.

Over the weekend I watched a documentary about Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). Shocking and truthfully funny, it was a real eye-opener about the creation of FSD and the respective drug to cure it. Is sexual dissatisfaction a disease? or is it just a difficulty? No one really knows, so are pills really necessary to address this problem? but I think the question that really applies to us all is: are there no other alternatives? or are we just too busy/lazy to look for them and just want a quick pill fix? are we letting pharmaceutical companies exploit our insecurities, fears and irresponsibilities?

I am not insensitive or naive, I know people have chemical imbalances that cause anxiety and depression, but I still think that before we are diagnosed and treated with prescriptions we should look for other answers. Or at the very least question our doctors and the prescriptions given out...

"There's a lot of money to be made telling healthy people they are sick" - Ray Moynihan, Visiting Editor of the British Medical Journal, Co-author of Selling Sickness.

Please watch the documentary. I think it is brilliant. It raises questions about risks vs. benefits, money vs. health and ethics vs. profits.