From Peter Gøtzsche’s Substack: “There is a mental health crisis in the UK where mental health disability has almost trebled in recent decades, and the gap in life expectancy between people with severe mental health issues and the general population has doubled.
Responding to the crisis, the outgoing president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Lade Smith, claimed on BBC radio two weeks ago that the pandemic of mental illness, which affects one in eight people, is clearly distinguishable from the mental health challenges we all experience; that it requires medical treatment because “If you don’t get treated, things get worse;” and that effective psychiatric treatments are available that can prevent the chronicity that leads to people going on benefits.”