This clip shows how the pharmaceutical companies used these statistics to market the SSRI’s to the general public. People would in response go and see a psychiatrist and demand to be made normal. It also shows how Dr. Robert Spitzer, the creator of this new diagnostic method admits that the list, by asking only for surface , to some extent medicalizes completely normal thoughts and emotions. Another psychiatrist comments that by doing this, the list has created an illusion of a mental health epidemic that bears little relation to reality.

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