Bad Medicine: The rise and rise of antidepressants

‘Safe spaces’ are areas at universities that seek to protect students from ideas that they might find ‘triggering’ and potentially upsetting. Fine in principle, but the unintentional consequence is that this shuts down free speech and discussion. A new authoritarian political correctness, with a simplistic dogma that there is a right and wrong way to think. And this new absolutism is encroaching into medicine. Questioning the current model of mental health leads to angry accusations of dismissing mental health. Yet, as we begin to acknowledge the risk of overdiagnosis generally, there seems an unwillingness to acknowledge this in mental illness. There is no recognition …