why is everyone promoting meditation?

[AnthroHeart]

A final point, that really angers me. Apparently some psychiatric hospitals have banned meditation? I'm not surprised, and as somebody who has myself and has family that has been exploited by the pharmaceutical industry/America's failing and corrupt mental health care system, its quite obvious to me why they would ban meditation. They want to sell you drugs, and to do this, they can't have you believing that you have the power to work on yourself cognitively/psychologically/spiritually. They want to push the idea you are nothing more than a walking chemical distillery that's malfunctioning because it needs their drugs.

This is a hot button to me too, even more so in psychiatry, where they push the notion that someone needs to take medication to make their (say) depression manageable in order to go back to being a functioning, well-adapted member of society. The catalyst that brought about the depression is masked, what is treated is the symptom rather than the root of the problem, and what angers me even more is the notion of measuring a person's mental health by its level of adaptation to a society that is, itself, sick and insane. Many cases of so-called personality disorders, at the end of the day, are nothing more than the best option that someone's mind has found to deal with the insanity around us.

I did an internship for psychology a few years back, and the psychologists in that center touted medication as the go-to treatment for the first signs of depression or so-called mental illness. When I pointed out that the content of a patient's hallucinations seemed to be connected with self-esteem issues, I was pretty much ridiculed and called "non-scientific". On another instance, even when citing a scientific study that pointed out that antisocial personalities can feel empathy for others if they are motivated to do it, this too was dismissed and considered of no importance whatsoever, under the justification that "psychopaths are never going to have an incentive to feel empathy".

This fascination with putting people in boxes, limiting their choices and tools of healing, simplifying and reducing human nature to the most sterile of notions... I understand that confusion is the name of the game in this density, but this really angers me sometimes.

When I was in the 3 mental hospitals, never did I even have the desire to meditate. I was positively wired and talking to God in my head and such.
I would walk around restlessly though a lot.
One person even propositioned me for sex once at one. Turned it down of course.
Meditation would be difficult anyway cause there's a lot of negative energy going around. I don't see how you would accomplish much.