Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

A study of how ordinary people deal with everyday problems through self-mastery and mental health care practices.

Everyday suffering—those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone's lives—is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a drastic change in the way we approach it. In the past, a person going through a time of difficulty might keep a journal or see a therapist, but now the psychological has been ...