# 230. How They Convinced a Generation That Being Human Is a Disease

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Podcast: [Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radically-genuine-podcast-with-dr-roger-mcfillin-3930946)
Published: 2026-05-14T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://radicallygenuinepodcast.transistor.fm/230
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Duration seconds: 3637

## Resource

In 1976, Merck's CEO told Fortune magazine his dream was to make drugs for healthy people and sell them to everyone. Fifty years later, that dream is the air we breathe. In this solo episode, Dr. Roger McFillin traces how a generation was taught that being human is a disease. He walks through the 1994 inflection point, the Zoloft commercial that rewrote a culture, the academics and journals and sales reps who built the influence machine, and the school-to-pediatrician-to-customer-for-life pipeline that captured childhood itself. He reflects on the recent HHS mental health summit, what it gets right, and what the bureaucrats are still unwilling to say out loud. He names what was lost in the trade. The wisdom passed down through generations. The understanding that emotions are a guidance system, not a malfunction. The mental health industrial complex is not a healthcare system. It's a control system. The drugs are weapons. The diagnoses are chains. This is how you walk out of the cage.

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