I'm sorry, I wasn't notified of your reply. But I'm not clear on where I said I don't want to treat people? Why are you talking about me "taking away" anything? My position is that psychoactive drugs are being recommended too much, especially in indications like anxiety and depression. And that's not even touching the subject of hospital care, where you will still see cases of sedative/anxiolytic abuse (from the doctors' side!) to better manage an unpleasant patient.

Other people in this thread have made claims that evidence of treatment efficacy is sufficient grounds to treat. If that were the case, we wouldn't need to have phases 1 and 2 of clinical trials. The critical axiom of medicine and healthcare is "do no harm", and that applies on a population level as well. Psychoactive drugs can have serious side effects and they shouldn't be viewed as pills you pop just to get some spring in your step.

To reiterate, I'm not against pharmacological treatment of conditions like ADHD, GAD, depression etc. As you say, sometimes it is the only viable option. But that was not my point; my point was that these are powerful substances that we don't fully understand and we should treat them with respect, not throw them at people from all angles.

E: I just realized, I disagree with the statement that there is no way to fight ADHD without stimulants. And I'm not talking about "just focus harder" or similar nonsense, rather prevention. Any medical professional worth their salt knows prevention is better than treatment, and there is good evidence (as far as I remember) that some chemicals, lifestyle factors etc. play a role in ADHD as risk factors.