Please watch and comment !

[Cmg123]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=II96Q...(Not working as expected?)

[Stilltrying_]

I think a lot of people nowadays have emotional problems due to the stresses and strains of the way life is at the moment. This documentary is rather extreme. However it is not completely untrue what they say. There are too many people in my opinion believing that their sadness is a chemical imbalance in the brain or that antipsyhotic medicine is a precise science. This video goes to an extreme however. For some people no doubt depression is an imbalance in the brain, for many others it is their life circumstances and the way the world works nowadays.

I think really nowadays the world is just a little crazy and people can feel lost. It is amazing that anyone is sane ! (that's my opinion for what it is worth)

[Cmg123]

Hi

Thanks for your comments, I assume you have watched this all the way through before my posting

It would be interesting to find out if anyone has put into question there diagnosis and what was based on with there mental health worker or gp

There does seem to be some logic that supports the arguments this documentry puts forward

[Suzie40]

Every person on this earth has mental health problems. We're all on the same train line, just getting off at different stops along the way.

I don't know of a single person who has never felt sad, or thought that people are talking about them, or obsessed over something for longer than perhaps was necessary. It's only when these behaviours happen so often that they begin to impact on the life you've always known, that you go and get a label stuck on yourself and a pot of pills to take at 8pm each night.

I don't think it's particularly the fault of anyone if you get misdiagnosed. Mental health difficulties are among the hardest to diagnose as there's no black and white answer. You get an X-ray to check a broken leg, a blood test for anaemia, a skin test for an allergy. There is no simple test for a mental health condition.

Everyone on this forum has depression, yet my symptoms are probably completely different to yours. I think it's only to be expected that more complicated conditions are diagnosed by a process of eliminating alternatives. Plus there's the added complication that so many mental health conditions overlap and intertwine. I have an 'official' diagnosis of depression, yet I have definite traits of anxiety, ASD, OCD and I used to have some Tourette's type behaviours.

It's a complicated field, and one that I'm glad that I don't work in! Thanks for the link, it was interesting!

[gardengnome]

oh dear, rather melodramatic--- the script writer clearly had an agenda. Is there anything they don't blame the psch profession for?

[Gambit62]

think the comments under the clip probably say it all - albeit not the language I would use.

Only sampled but it looks like the worst sort of sensationalist journalism.

[Cmg123]

Hi all

Thanks for taking time to watch this documentry (please watch it all though)

I hope that everyone understands that I am trying to change peoples thinking towards the medical profession but this documentry really rang some alarm bells for me and my illness

Since I've been diagnosed I've had cbt, Counciling and meds with no change.