I honestly wonder what people did all those years ago before Prozac and Paxil and Zoloft and all those other mood-altering drugs were invented. Given that they soothe things like social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, it certainly makes things easier for people to interact these days. Which begs the question: did these disorders exist before our generation, or did the pressures of modern-day life invent these "diseases" (for lack of a better term)?

It's not that I doubt people have these problems. Some people really do have chemical imbalances, mild as they may be, which put them slightly off-kilter from the rest of us. I just feel like doctors are raining drugs down on the general population, and it makes me wonder what people did even thirty or forty years ago without these drugs. What did people do before we had the pharmaceutical solutions?