I’m with you.
On the basis of more than a few mental health/illness threads around here, I believe (as in I am expressing only my opinion) that the the overprescription of ADHD meds by the public schools is a prime cause in freeper’s mistrust or distrust of the pyschiatric establishment. The charges may well be appropriate.
But it paints with too broad a brush to indict the entire practice on the basis of that. As always, the most extreme examples (school shooters / suicides) get nearly all the press and media attention, while the overwhelming majority of people on these meds simply continue to live their now-productive lives in silence and anonymity.
From the article:
In fact, we're popping so many SSRIs that their breakdown products in urine, gushing into waterways, have accumulated in fish tissues, raising concerns that aquatic animals may be getting toxic doses, according to recent research at Baylor University.
When we've gotten to the point of poisoning fish, you know we're talking about a lot of drugs. And that's counting only antidepressants. What about all the other types of psychiatric meds we consume, including the tens of millions of prescriptions for Ritalin and other controversial stimulants taken by children and adults diagnosed with ADD (or ADHD) – a condition that didn't even exist until the 1980s?