The Madness of Pop Psychiatry

“Call your doctor if you have fever, stiff muscles and confusion, which may signal a life-threatening condition."

I recently visited my grandmother. She’s frail, so we sat in the living room and watched network television. I didn’t notice the programming. Like carbon monoxide, it was tasteless and asphyxiating. I watched her consume an impressive sequence of pills while breathing oxygen through a plastic nasal cannula. She pulled them one at a time from a comically…