Medication

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Psychiatric drugs are supposed to solve our problems. Sometimes they make things much worse.

We’re told a mental illness is just like a physical illness. It isn’t true, and it isn’t helpful either.

Emotional problems might not be our fault. But they're our responsibility to fix.

Mental illness is becoming more and more common. Or is it?

We have enormous faith in medicine and science. But psychoactive drugs are less effective and less safe than we have been led to think.

Conventional wisdom is that doctors can safely solve our anxiety, ADHD, depression and psychosis. The truth couldn’t be more different.

If a famous psychiatrist, particularly one from a famous university, says something about psychiatric drugs, our reflex is to believe. Watc

Nearly 13% of Americans took antidepressants in the past month. But do these drugs work better than a placebo?

When a child is diagnosed with ADHD, the first solution many doctors propose is medication. It should be the last resort, not the first.