World Mental Health Day should be embraced as an opportunity to focus on mental health, a time to present optimism for those who are struggling. Psychiatry however has a tendency to focus on mental difficulties, the negative aspects of life, how bad things are while categorising these issues as "mental illness" and…
World Mental Health Day should be dedicated to focusing on mental health. But the supposed custodians of mental health, psychiatrists, are actually the custodians of the exact opposite. Psychiatrists are selling sickness to the worried well. ‘Disease-Mongering’ is a term defined as “the act of convincing essentially well people that they are…
Psychiatrists and their membership body, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, consistently speak about crises in their profession. A lamenting narrative and a call for more Government funding could easily convince members of the public that a higher proportion of their taxes should be spent. Trigger words such as “overstretched” and under-resourced”…
When it’s Children's Mental Health Week, it’s ironic that attention isn’t actually focused on children’s mental health. Instead the focus is on mental illness and the host of psychiatric ‘disorders’ being used to label various aspects of childhood. It would be more accurate to call it children's mental illness week. Rather than…
Various media outlets have been warning of potential shortages of, among other pharmaceutical products, antidepressant drugs. One article in a national newspaper presented a dire warning, noting: “according to Mark Samuels, who heads industry body the British Generic Manufacturers Association, the situation is ‘worse than at any time I’ve experienced during my…
As the search for answers begins following the senseless and indiscriminate shooting in Plymouth
