"I have a professional mental health counselor in my family who insists as much as 40% of the population could benefit from some minor amount of behavior altering medication."

lol, that's what the pharmaceutical companies want us to believe. a lot of those medicines are based on inconclusive research and wrong assumptions. unless you're taking antipsychotics, stimulants, benzos, or a few other families of drugs, your crazy pills are probably based on bunk science.