Sedados

In Britain, almost a quarter of the adult population takes a psychiatric medication a year, an increase of more than 500 per cent since 1980, and the numbers continue to grow. Yet despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all kinds have increased in number and severity. Dr Davies argues that this is because we have approached the problem in the wrong way. Many of the people who are diagnosed with and prescribed psychiatric medication are not suffering from biologically identifiable problems, but rather are experiencing the understandable and, of course, painful consequences of life difficulties: family breakups, problems at work, unhappiness in relationships or low self-esteem. We have adopted a medical model that places the problem solely in the person suffering from it and in their brain. For these people, there has been an imbalance in the availability of help in which they are offered a myriad of pharmaceutical and medical interventions, as opposed to talk-based therapies and social psychological provision, which can better facilitate significant change and recovery. Recovery. Sedados meticulously examines why this erroneous and dangerous individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business.