> I’m not trying to discount mental health, I just think there are better solutions than drugs to fix your state of mind.

Find one that's as effective on the general population.

I mean, sure, perhaps lifestyle changes are better. Can you get a higher percentage to change them and improve people's lives than we currently can with drugs?

As a top performer in school, I definitely think (and still point out), that you can get fantastically high results in SAT/GRE without paying any test prep service. I and many of my peers did it. There are better solutions than paying those services. But how many who don't pay do as well as those who do? I can tell them how to study as much as I can, but the reality is that statistically, people who attend will do better than if they don't.

From a medical standpoint, telling people to change how they live and think has a fairly low success rate. The best options usually don't work on the masses.