Dr Ellie Cannon discovered it bizarre that she was criticised for giving what she considers customary NHS recommendation about antidepressants on the This Morning TV programme (see her Mail on Sunday article). Though I had some issues in regards to the wording in locations, I used to be one of many signatories to an Open Letter to This Morning in regards to the section on the programme by which she appeared.
I don’t wish to undermine her religion in antidepressants as she takes them herself, however I do suppose it’s important that sufferers are given appropriate info to assist them make choices about antidepressants with their physician. I’m not satisfied Dr Ellie understands the criticisms of what she stated by labelling them “anti-psychiatry”. Though she might have been attempting to dispel myths, she has perpetuated the parable that melancholy is because of a “chemical imbalance” within the mind (see eg. earlier submit). She’s not the one physician that misleads her sufferers on this approach.
