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Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up (2014)

by Kaitlin Bell Barnett(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0807001457 (ISBN13: 9780807001455)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Beacon Press

review 1: ok book about author, five peers she interviews in depth, and to a lesser extent young adults in general who have grown up taking psychiatric medication. Raises interesting questions about issues such as how it affects one's sense of identity to be taking mood-altering or mood-stabilizing meds during a life stage when identity is forming, when moodiness is at a high level anyway, etc.Limited by the near-total absence of meaningful research to review on the subject. Often an interesting question or topic would be raised, the author's hunch elaborated, and then the section would conclude with a thud as she candidly acknowledges that it could be like this or maybe for some people it's like that, or maybe neither or both.
review 2: The book follows the lives of a... more half dozen people or so who have been medicated for anxiety, depression or both since they were between 9-12 and are now basically in their early 30's. The bookdoes not come to any strong conclusions though I would say that in each case except maybe one they are all worse off for being on the various meds (mostly ssri's). It becomes clear that when put on the meds new and more difficulties emerged which I believe where generated by the meds and their affect on the brain or their problems grew worse. The book is maddening and sad and there is not much hope if any offered through the book. It also becomes clear that the idea that these meds are here to stay (for many reasons, money being one of them) is depressing itself. What emerges is a view of life, how it is to be lived and what we are as human beings that disturbingly accepts & adopts low expectations. Thus our view of life and what it should be is less than energizing. It can be summed up this way "what-ever!" less

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