For example, depression is something that people take drugs for, but how can you really tell if someone is having a bad day, from someone who is truly depressed. Even if a psychiatrist were able to tell the difference, it's still not a good idea for someone to have to take a pill (or other medication) to keep from being depressed. As a result, that person will become dependent on drugs instead of truly overcoming the depression. Joanna Moncrieff, wrote the book “The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychotropic Drugs,” in which she states: “It (power) has facilitated the particular form of social control that is embedded in psychiatric practice, interpreting psychiatric restraint as the medical treatment of a mental illness” (218). Just as Joanna writes, psychiatrists think that putting the person under psychological control is the remedy, but the fact is that it does nothing but temporarily hold the problem without solving it. Joanna further states how people have adopted this thinking thinking that the psychological problem comes from a chemical imbalance