For thirty years, psychiatry bet everything on the biological model of mental illness. The drugs worked, sort of, for some people. What got lost was everything else — and now a generation is paying the price.
Boys are falling behind in education, men are withdrawing from the workforce and from relationships. Understanding why requires being more honest than most political factions are willing to be.
Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide have risen for two decades. The clinical system designed to respond to them is failing — not by accident, but by design.
Americans have never been more socially isolated, and every proposed solution misunderstands the problem. What loneliness is actually telling us about modern life.