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Nobody treats autism with opioids.

There is a big, room filling word in there; “reactive” depression. Reactive depression is very real and can be anything from a months long downer from grief to postnatal depression. What they used to call “clinical depression” is such a different beast. There is a big history of depression...

SSRI’s and other mental health treatment drugs have been crucial life-saving medicines for millions of people. They just aren’t meant for everyone - feeling a bit sad isn’t depression. When they get prescribed like a miracle cure or billed “happy pills” in the public consciousness, it does the...

Precisely.

On my first day of a part time job at a garden centre, I introduced myself to and asked a colleague how they were. She gave me a blank stare, and said “why, do I not seem okay?”. She literally went and complained to the manager that I had said something along the lines of “what’s wrong with...