In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity.Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts, and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain.Urgent and persuasive, Sedated systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business – and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.
About the Author
James Davies is a world-renowned osteopath, performance coach and recovery specialist. He has worked throughout the UK, USA, EUROPE and Jamaica with professional athletes ranging from Olympic champions, premiership footballers, NFL and rugby union players, as well as A-list clients from Music, Film and TV.
James developed the ethos of relieve, restore and perform based on his own personal experience as a young athlete. James is on a mission to help everyone understand how their bodies work, to help people seek answers to why they are in pain and to provide strategies to help reach their full health potential. How to listen to the warning signs the body gives us when the systems in our body have become compromised. What you can do to reduce pain, improve flexibility, overcome weakness, and to recover from persistent or new injuries.
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