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Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life Hardcover – May 14, 2013

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Important but also detrimental to those with mental health concerns
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Important but also detrimental to those with mental health concerns
This book is great for the mental health/medical profession. I agree with the author on many points, especially the over prescription of drugs in the US (especially by PCP instead of psychiatrists). I think this book is a must read for people who know how to use the information for good. But it’s not for the general public!!Why? Because the target audience is mental health deniers who don’t want to accept their diagnosis. He clearly states that mental health diagnosis is the real deal, and medications can help, but the type of person who isn’t medically trained/highly educated will pick this up and use it as an excuse to deny their illness. People like my mother who has the clearest most obvious clinical case of bipolar I I have ever seen. With this book she believes her behaviors are normal and doesn’t need her life saving medication. Or the mother of an autistic child worry ADHD, who desperately needs to follow protocol and medication guidelines to ease her and her child’s suffering (the author all but denies the existence of ADHD and the “spectrum” of autism).The non medical person who needs this book is highly unlikely to pick it up. Who needs it? Any person that lost a loved one and is grieving, but has been diagnosed as “depressed” and given medication. Any person who gets nervous before speeches and their pcp prescribed them strong benzos to take daily. People who aren’t mentally ill but don’t have any knowledge of this profession so they blindly trust their doctors. That is who needs this book, but I have no faith they will ever find it.In summary: it’s a good book, and I agree with him for the most part... but it’s too easy to be used for mental health denial for me to comfortably give it 5 stars. It really should be limited to the mental health field. All Primary Care doctors and mental health workers should read.
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Santiago González Chávez
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5.0 out of 5 stars Libro bellissimo.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The range of the deranged should be rearranged again
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