Yup, folks use modern medicines; other folks visit root workers, shamen, witch doctors, Scientologists, and so forth.
Take your pick.
Mental and emotional problems of a most serious nature existed long before the development of Prozac, et al, and they'll be around in the future. The modern drugs do help a large percentage of the afflicted better cope with the problems.
You seem to have some kind of deep seated problem with somebody or something. But nothing I know is based on witch doctors or ‘root workers(?)’.
I don’t know what you are trying to imply with this list unless you think all of these groups have something in common. And they don’t have anything to do with pharmaceuticals.
I’m not a doctor. I don’t claim to be one myself. I was a director of a nationally accredited drug rehabilitation center. As part of my accreditation, I had to study addictionology as well as pharmacology. I’ve had to get people off of virtually every drug you’ve ever heard of. I have real life personal experience with all of them including most psychotropics.
But these drugs were prescribed to kids by real doctors. doctors who have licenses and DEA approval to prescribe controlled substances. And these kids become suicidal and homicidal - something they were not before they were put on these drugs.
Did you know that Eli Lilly did a trial of Prozac in Britian back in the 1980s before they submitted it to the FDA for approval where 14 of the trial subjects killed themselves? They didn’t submit THAT to the FDA. But suicide IS on one of the side effects of the drug. Its not like you can take a beta blocker or an anti-imflammatory and start thinking about killing yourself.
And I defy any expert to publicly prove there is a difference between a half dozen of the most popular conditions listed in the DSM IV. There can’t possibly be thousands of mental illnesses if none of them can be medically distinguished or proven by a medical to exist.
But even if I were a witch or a Scientologist, nothing
would be any different and none of these dead people would come back to life. I never heard of witches, Scientologists, shaman or any root workers out killing people in a mall or an elementary school.
To call this ‘modern’ is irrelevant. Just because its new doesn’t mean it is medically valid or healthy. In fact, most of the things medical doctors have historically given people to cure mental ills have been either lethal, like mercury, or just pain harmful like lithium or thorazine.