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Prescriptions of psychiatric drugs are soaring - but are sadness and grief being confused with depression? 6 February 2021 • 6:00am "A person’s feelings are “medicalised” – framed as something for which you need to “get help”. And usually, these days, it’s with drugs."  Credit: Illustration by Lisa Sheehan Five years ago my medical records read like a psychiatry textbook. Stressed and unhappy after the sudden end of my marriage in 2010, I stopped being able to sleep. My GP told me I had an ‘adjustment disorder’ and gave me sleeping pills. When these didn’t work, I was d...

The psychiatric ideology turns us into potential patients, alienating us from ordinary and understandable emotions.

Sami Timimi provides a discussion of the ways medication may be helpful for some, and advice and information on discontinuing them.

Deconstructing diagnosis, the nature of psychological injury, and how identifying a problem can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

December 7, 2020 By Sami Timimi Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America’s Parent Resources section will publish selected chapters of Sami Tamimi’s new book, Insane Medicine . Dr. Timimi is a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at the UK’s Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. His past works include the books Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture, and A Straight Talking Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems, among others. Following is Chapter 5, Part 1. All chapters will be archived here.  When I was ...