"Everything's a Disease These Days..."

http://www.badscience.net/2006/04/selling-sickness/

I wish he'd gone into more detail about the harm that's done when every form of human discontent is misconstrued as a disease: the murders provoked when people who aren't serotonin-deficient take serotonin boosters and develop violent psychoses, the careers ruined when children who may or may not have genuine learning disabilities are misidentified with those who (whatever the trendy euphemism is these days) have genuine thinking disabilities, the side effects produced when pain that's caused by bad posture and habits is mistreated with medication instead of correcting the cause...but that's not what I'm online to do today, either, so I can see why Goldacre didn't bother to make this more than a rant.