I always appreciate a good fact checking, thanks! I'll have to look into it more for myself, great counter-perspective. I'll add an anecdote about the book's ef

I always appreciate a good fact checking, thanks! I'll have to look into it more for myself, great counter-perspective. I'll add an anecdote about the book's effect re: the claims about brain chemistry: talking to the friend who recommended the book about Hari's claims to the ineffectiveness of medication, she said "Even if my medication only makes a few percent difference, for me it's the difference between killing myself and not." I liked that reading of Hari's book not as anti-medicine, but as an explanation for why people who've been ratcheting up their dosage over the years, as a lot of my friends have, still feel totally insane: medication can't fix the whole problem itself.