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To: quehubo who wrote (126459)	12/5/2009 1:47:49 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542534

"This is a huge part of the medical cost problem the nation has now. I wish much more money was spent on mental health issues teaching people better behavior skills than later on medical issues. But the medical / pharma interests are not going to push therapy." Therapy and lifestyle changes are great- they work a bit better for diseases like diabetes and CPD, but I'm for it. It is expensive to provide face time with a health professional, and pills are cheap for practices to dispense, and profitable for large pharma. It might make health care more expensive to provide therapy- at least in the short run (maybe even the long run). I'm for it, since I think effective health care is worth it, but not everyone will be. Lifestyle still does not address the real biochemical problems people have which cause mental illness. And of course people are influenced by others- parents don't need to teach that. Man is a social creature. Only the sociopath doesn't care what others think. You would not like sociopathology in other areas of behavior, I suspect, so try to understand why most people need social approval in their lives. We NEED people to care what others think of them. I suspect it is impossible to have a healthy society where people are uninfluenced by the judgments of others- but this is also why we must be careful what we judge. "People who teach their kids to allow others to influence how they feel about themselves."