This second conversation was a reminder, every time, that the mental health system, for all its caring professionals, is chaotic and extremely difficult to navigate. In time, those seeking help became the lens through which I saw my job, and their questions became my own. had concluded that a so-called black-box warning on antidepressant drug labels was warranted, citing the suicide risk for children, adolescents and young adults. The antidepressant wars, as this debate came to be known (it rages on today), also helped uncover the influence of industry money on academic psychiatry. This state of affairs made it virtually impossible to interpret psychiatric drug studies.

Source: New York Times April 01, 2021 09:00 UTC