When I was 18, I went to the GP with low mood. Within three minutes, I left clutching a prescription for fluoxetine, more commonly known as Prozac. This was in 2004, when mental health was not as widely talked about. It was still a little taboo, judged by the ignorant and dismissed by the resilient.

I always wonder how many psychiatrists have lived experience. It takes a long time to train as a psychiatrist, and it’s tough going, which doesn’t leave much time for lived experience in my opinion. And these are the doctors dishing out the medication