More pontification and intellectualization of matters that people have no first-hand experience of, as is HN's wont.

As someone with over 20 years of mental health issues who refused medication for exactly the same reasons - "sucking it up," trying to address root causes, meditation, spirituality, exercise...

... none of it worked. You could easily spend a lifetime trying to "root cause" the source of your malady and return empty handed, as I have. When the bills need to get paid, and your options are psychological collapse or some chemical attenuation of your mental state, I think the choice is clear.

I agree that it's sort of twisted that modern society is structured such that we need to constantly medicate ourselves to cope with day to day existence.

Alas.