“The Medicated Americans” is about America’s antidepressant use and how most of the time the terms “depression” and “Depression” can lead to incorrect prescriptions of these antidepressants. The author Charles Barber goes into detail on the numerous amount of misdiagnoses for depression due to the misunderstanding of the word. Like depression, most other disorders are not being treated correctly and a majority of the people who are being treated are not receiving the full benefits they need.
43 percent of people who have been prescribed antidepressants had no psychiatric diagnosis prior to the prescription. Females are twice as likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs than men and two thirds of doctors did not tell their patients the extent …show more content…
Depression was a diagnosis that was more prominent in elderly women and the prevalence of depression in World
War One was only one percent. The dramatic increase to forty percent today is what got this era to be known as the “Age of Depression”.
The article was written to inform people on the use of antidepressants, other disorders and their lack of treatment to patients, and the common misunderstanding of the term and diagnosis of depression. A connection to Dr. Jane’s class is the references to the DSM and what they explain in relation to depression as well as schizophrenia. Another connection to the class is the prevalence and how it can increase due to environmental factors like wars.
A strong point of the article were the statistics and use of antidepressants. Charles Barber explained in detail the statistics of the use of the drug as well as the doctors prescriptions of it.
He also went into detail about the reasons of why this happens in today’s society. Another strong point made in the article the misunderstanding of the term depression. He goes into depth of
43 percent of people who have been prescribed antidepressants had no psychiatric diagnosis prior to the prescription. Females are twice as likely to be prescribed psychiatric drugs than men and two thirds of doctors did not tell their patients the extent …show more content…
Depression was a diagnosis that was more prominent in elderly women and the prevalence of depression in World
War One was only one percent. The dramatic increase to forty percent today is what got this era to be known as the “Age of Depression”.
The article was written to inform people on the use of antidepressants, other disorders and their lack of treatment to patients, and the common misunderstanding of the term and diagnosis of depression. A connection to Dr. Jane’s class is the references to the DSM and what they explain in relation to depression as well as schizophrenia. Another connection to the class is the prevalence and how it can increase due to environmental factors like wars.
A strong point of the article were the statistics and use of antidepressants. Charles Barber explained in detail the statistics of the use of the drug as well as the doctors prescriptions of it.
He also went into detail about the reasons of why this happens in today’s society. Another strong point made in the article the misunderstanding of the term depression. He goes into depth of