I am a big fan of people finding the psychiatric medications that can help them, but know that it can be hard for people to find support when they want to transition off of them. This essay really digs into the question: Where can people go when they want to see what life is like off the meds?

Scheffler and his team of graduate students examined nine years of data from two large, yearly studies of students [and said]  “Our numbers show that (the number of) students being treated or diagnosed for an anxiety disorder has doubled nationally in the last eight years.”

“Perhaps we’ve all gotten a little hungry for meaning. Participation in organized religion is falling, especially among American millennials. In San Francisco, where I live, I’ve noticed that the concept of productivity has taken on an almost spiritual dimension. Techies here have internalized the idea — rooted in the Protestant work ethic — that work is not something you do to get what you want; the work itself is all.”