Democracy Now interviewing Gary Greenberg author of “Manufacturing Depression”

View 15 minutes of video here.

Transcript  of the interview is below the video.

Gary Greenberg talks great sense. Well worth a listen/watch. This link goes straight to the right spot on the video.

From Democracy Now website:

Is depression manufactured? Two decades after the introduction of antidepressants, it’s become commonplace to assume that our sadness can be explained in terms of a disease called depression. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that more than 14 million Americans suffer from major depression every year and more than three million suffer from minor depression. Some 30 million Americans take antidepressants at a cost of over $10 billion a year. Gary Greenberg argues that while depression can be debilitating, it has also been largely manufactured by doctors and drug companies as a medical condition with a biological cause that can be treated with prescription medication.

Review of book here.

Two Guardian articles on Greenberg and his book.

Here’s the book on Amazon: Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease