I have an addendum already - this is again taken from the Critical Psychiatry Network website. "Stemming the Tide - the Mental Health Industrial Complex." How do we stem this tide? Dr. Sami Timimi, "There are multiple drivers – that’s why I call it a mental health industrial complex. There’s a lot of money in medicalising normal experiences. Social media turbocharges it. It’s also fed by a failure of politics.... Diagnosis has merged with identity politics – people now make diagnoses part of their identity. That hyper-individualises problems and distracts from structural issues: economic crisis, austerity, performance culture, loss of trust in politics. But wherever there’s a harmful movement, there’s resistance. I see hopeful alternatives emerging – school projects, community projects, clinics doing things differently. Some are funded because waiting lists are endless. With your own children: be patient, resist the constant invitations to pathologise. I know a mother whose school pushed for autism assessment because her daughter wouldn’t attend. She fought it, worked with pastoral staff, went through months of hell at home – and now the girl is happily in school. No assessment needed."