alt Hacker News> chemical intervention is a moral weakness.
As a default it is. And that's what it became. We stopped trying any other methods. Come in the door, have a set of symptoms that check all the boxes, walk out in 30 minutes with a prescription, doctor's office gets a bonus. Institutional psychiatric treatment is drugs first actual treatment later.
This is a _social_ problem. It should be discussed and addressed as such. You should not attempt to pervert this concern into an _individual_ issue in an effort to invoke a needless moral defense.
If it's a social problem then the non-pharmaceutical cure is obviously not white-knuckling a diet and exercise regimen individually. It needs a holistic, society-level solution. More time off work, less car-dependent suburbs, more bike lanes and subsidies for bikes, more agricultural subsidies for healthy food and less for corn. Realistically we aren't going to get those things.