The Voice of Heard/The Case of Misdiagnosis and Overmedication

What kind of behavior would you consider an illness?  Sadness?  Shyness?  Insomnia?  These are the kinds of questions that are being asked regarding the pharmacutical industry, medications, and psychiatry in recent years.  Some people say that shyness, sadness, and pain are good for you.  Others say that overmedication is an anxiety-raising myth. 

If this sparks your interest, you can check out the following links here:

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/overselling-overmedication/

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/06/11/shyness_or_social_anxiety/

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653643,00.html?fromrss=1

You can also read books on this topic like Shyness: How Normal Behavior Bacame a Sickness by Christopher Lane and The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield.

After you did all that, you can draw your own conclusions on what is normal behavior and what is an illness.