Psychiatric drugs, particularly long-term, aren't good. There are so many negative side effects to our overall health, especially mental health. According to the author, there are so many "conditions" that are being medicalised, which shouldn't. Normal reactions to the stress of our lives do not need drugs, especially not long-term. Take work stress for example. The book explores several systems in the UK designed to "help" people.back to their "productive" and "normal" selves. Systems designed to help workers deal with stressful situations at work, systems designed to help unemployed people (who assume they have mental issues) back to work, systems designed to help kids at school reach their "potential" so they can develop into productive workers. All these systems put the blame on the person, assuming there is something wrong in them, in their brains (chemical imbalance). None of these systems look into the actual conditions in which we work, study and live. These conditions created by the capitalist system, according to James Davies, are the actual cause of our distress. The book offers an interesting criticism of Capitalism, starting from Thatcher's reforms. Pills and drugs will do nothing to improve anything, just make our health worse.
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