Advertising has helped create self-medicating numbskulls who offer everyone unsolicited advice.

Came across this interesting column, entitled "Advertising has helped create self-medicating numbskulls who offer everyone unsolicited advice".

What fuels our entitlement to self-conferred honorary psych doctorates may be nothing so programmatic as advertising. Last year, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that in the decade beginning in 1987 — the year the antidepressant Prozac was introduced to the market — antidepressant use among depression patients increased 38 percent, while a reliance on therapy by the patient pool decreased by 11 percent.

An interesting analysis of the situation, although I don't agree with all points.