117. How the National Institute of Mental Health created the depression epidemic

And the Role of Pharmaceutical Strategies in Shaping Public Perception

Recently, through a text message from a mutual friend, lifestyle design guru Tim Ferriss asked me a question:

“Could you ask her, if she has time, what the TL;DR (too long; didn’t read) is for the book explanation of why we’ve had such an astonishing rise in mental illness?”

Tim was referring to the book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric…