2 Books Like Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder

This is a horrifying tale of medical gaslighting and devastation wrought by a pharmaceutical industry which regards our bodies, and our children’s bodies, as nothing more than terrain for them to ride roughshod over.

As the author points out, we need to see depression as a flaw in neither chemistry nor character, but as a perfectly understandable reaction to individual and social circumstances, and to work to find meaningful work and foster human connection -- rather than to dull our emotions (negative and positive alike) with brain-disabling drugs.