Direct-to-consumer advertisements enhance the medicalization of personality traits and physical differences.

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Direct-to-consumer advertisements often promote the use of drugs or treatments for personality traits and physical differences that may not necessarily be medical conditions, thereby promoting the medicalization of these traits and differences. This can lead to the over-diagnosis and over-treatment of individuals, as well as the normalization of the idea that all differences must be treated with medication.

Direct-To-Consumer Advertisements Enhance the Medicalization of Personality Traits and Physical