Prescription Medication Commercials

They are a hypochondriac's dream come true. Hypersensitive self-diagnosing and doctor rubberstamping are terms used in defiance of these commercials and rightly so, as the idea that there is a pill for every situation or stray thought is an unhealthy practice. Instead of exercising and training the mind with clear and clean thought, we are now programmed with the idea that pills are our answer to all our ills. Yes, I am afraid that pills have replaced exercise and clean healthy living.

I do believe that, as a society, we should be aware of health issues and that help is out there, but I believe that the approach as to how we are trained to seek that help is wrong. It should be commonsense that while listening to a commercial, we hear more disadvantages of consuming the product than there are actual symptoms, we would steer away from such a product, instead, we see pictures of happy and healthy people surrounded by friends and family members while life goes on gloriously after consuming said product(s).

We should be encouraged in matters of preventive maintenance or preventive care instead of rushing through life with the idea that when a problem arises we can swallow a pill and keep on going, with no heed to the real underlying problem. Using imagery that we are one with the universe with one pill instills the ideal that exercise, commonsense and healthy dieting are out dated modes of living. We are a race of quite a bit of imagination and it is that imagination that is easily manipulated, not to say that we cannot think for ourselves, but rather the core of our thinking is what needs attention and taught what is in actuality right for our health.

Using media resources to teach and to learn is a positive approach, there is nothing wrong with it, but the broadcasted messages that our health and environment is something that can be taken care of with a pill drowns out what we have always instinctively known of our abilities and how to take care of ourselves. The message we see should be positive and to the point, we should be experiencing more healthy life routines and that these routines create positive feedback from our bodies. There are, of course, illnesses that require a doctor's attention; that is where our mindset should be encouraged to seek rather than a utopian quick fix.

Wouldn’t it be better to instill healthy living at an early age rather than being told that a pill will take away any ills later on in life?