Reddit reviews Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by Davies, James (2014) Paperback
We found 2 Reddit comments about Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by Davies, James (2014) Paperback. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
No. Many 'mental illnesses' are diagnosed and defined subjectively and the 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression has never been supported with a grain of evidence, and there is even evidence to the contrary (e.g. lowering the serotonin levels of 'non depressed' people does not cause them to become depressed) The number of new mental illnesses increases with each new edition of the DSM that they bring out.
Antinatalists in particular need to be very skeptical of the notion that just because you're not enjoying life, you're mentally ill by definition. That anyone who says that life isn't worth living is incapable of forming a competent judgement about life, because if they were capable of forming a competent judgement, they would have decided unequivocally that life is worth living (and worth starting). Any kind of difficulty that a person might have in adjusting to and coping with the demands of their existence is now defined as a mental illness.
A book worth reading on the corruption and pseudo-science that is rife within psychiatry is Cracked by James Davies:
https://www.amazon.com/Cracked-Psychiatry-Doing-More-Harm/dp/1848316542/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cracked+davies&qid=1567273380&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Honestly I scanned it and made assumptions. I've been reading Cracked and this study came up about three pages ago!