Rethinking Mental Health: Labels, Big Pharma and the Truth

Sigmund Freud wrote about anxiety in the early 1900s. Little did he realize that the term would be dropped like it’s in vogue, today.

His generation endured two World Wars, The Great Depression and a standard diet that mostly consisted of boiled potatoes, yet kept going.

Meanwhile, today’s GenZs spiral into existential crisis over wifi outages and exams….

In all seriousness, I’ve done my share of reflection over this. Why are the younger lot constantly stressed and anxious about things that every generation before them has experienced at incomparable levels?

Thankfully the good lord put an end to my restlessness and sent one of Britain’s leading child and adolescent psychiatrists, Dr Sami Timimi, my way to give me some much-needed answers.

Sami is well known for sharing his unorthodox and unfiltered views on ADHD and what he describes as the mental health industrial complex.

He highlights the dangers of labelling and pathologizing people, how we have essentially educated an entire generation into believing they’re being mentally ill and the role of politics and Big Pharma in all of it.

Disclaimer: This is not to say that mental health struggles are not real. Our feelings and states of being are completely valid. Dr Sami speaks to the importance of normalising pain, suffering, and discomfort as a part of the human experience rather than slapping on labels and medicalising our struggles.

This is hands down the most relevant conversation you need to hear around mental health.

In case you missed me last week….

Thanks for making it to the end, my friend! Are you subscribed yet? If not…