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Why the System Wants You Medicated
Most people still assume the purpose of medicine is to make people well. In some cases, that’s true. There are times when it can be life-saving, stabilizing, and deeply necessary. However, once you step back far enough to look at the wider pattern, something more disquieting comes into focus. A system built on chronic stress, artificial urgency, overstimulation, poor sleep, disconnection, isolation, and constant pressure does not necessarily need people to be healthy. It simply needs them functional. It needs them able to wake up, push through, stay quiet, meet the deadline, tolerate the…
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