With physical pain you normally treat an illness or injury and use medication alongside it, except in cases of chronic pain or terminal illness. When psychophar

With physical pain you normally treat an illness or injury and use medication alongside it, except in cases of chronic pain or terminal illness. When psychopharmaceuticals are used while fixing the underlying issues, then that's great (the analogue of chronic pain being severe imbalances in brain chemistry, where treatment of symptoms is enough). In both cases the pain occurs to signal a problem. However, mental pain is often inevitable and even necessary for human development to learn to deal with adversity for example. You treat every occurrence of a negative feeling that has massive implications for society and how humans deal with each other, the sort of meddling that I fear no good would come of. The quoted example of treating depression due to social isolation is a perfect example. People already feel depressed because they replace true human connection with parasocial and digital ones, and I think it would be absolutely destructive to just slap a feel-good-patch on every kid's arm rather than us recognizing as a collective that something is going the wrong way with our society.