Sorrow and grief are psychiatric conditions ?

@spndr7 (67)
India
April 24, 2012 5:27pm CST
Use of medication is increasing in US and elsewhere in the world in the name of suppressing extreme behaviour.How far should we limit its definitions of psychiatric conditions.Now doctors don't hesitate to prescribe medicines for small sadness. Some people blame the aggressive pharma industry for this phenomenon,what are your views on it ?
2 responses
@almond24 (1248)
• Hungary
25 Apr 12
I guess grief and sorrow are normal, as long as somebody can handle it and can put it away after some time. But many people are stuck and keep falling back into these conditions. I think they can be psychiatric conditions when someone is not able to control them any more. There are natural ways to treat these problems, but most people want and some need a quick solution, so when they go to the doctor it's the first that they prescribe some medicine. Maybe because they got used to people who always ask for medicine for all kinds of problems, so the doctors prescribe them for everyone.
• Philippines
25 Apr 12
Yes it is a psychiatric condition. Psychiatric condition is another way of saying mental condition so happiness, sadness, sorrow, depression, frustration, hallucination, joy, and so on are all mental or psychiatric condition. These are behaviors that involve mental functionality.