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You didn't get sick, you got enrolled Is the world losing its mind, or is everyone just on something? I look around and I sincerely can’t tell anymore. Your kid can’t sit still, so the doctor writes a script before asking what he eats or how many hours he stares at a screen. He’s not broken. He’s a seven-year-old boy. Your buddy can’t get it up, so he reaches for the blue pill instead of putting down the beer and chips. Your sister-in-law wants the influencer body, so she injects herself into a thinner version of being sick. A different disease, dressed up as discipline. Can’t sleep? Ambien. Anxious? Xanax. Sad for more than a week? Antidepressant. It’s easy: a fifteen-minute appointment, prescription in hand before you’ve finished saying what’s wrong with you. And the commercials. Twenty seconds of a couple holding hands in a field, followed by 40 seconds of a voice listing the ways the drug might hurt or kill them. Stroke. Suicidal thoughts. Sudden death. Ask your doctor. And people do. More 👇 https://brownstone.org/articles/you-didnt-get-sick-you-got-enrolled/

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