Garden State

I just recently watched the movie Garden State again. I loved it when I first saw it, although the whole piece of it where his psychiatrist dad has him on pills that he doesn't need sort of bugged me, because I felt like it promoted in a very hip way that psychiatry is nonsense and what people need is simply natalie portman's love and strange adventures with their friends. I guess that's just what that character needed, but still, there was an air of triumph over psychiatry that made me a little weasy as someone who relies on lithium and therapy. I do wonder, what will we say in fifty about our era of psychiatric solutions to mental illness? Will we say that big pharma began a powerful path to treating mental illness or will we say they went horribly off course? Or both maybe...Will Garden State seem prophetic about our generation of people struggling with mental health, or naive?