I AM delighted that at last one of the many problems we face is highlighted in your report headlined “Experts slam use of drugs to ‘contain’ mentally ill” (July 19).

I WISH to thank Dick Barton for the excellent letter headlined ‘Media should tackle the pill merchants (October 26).

WITH reference to the pharmaceutical company Lundbeck’s study on depression (July 31), is it is no wonder people fear being depressed in this country when the advice they are given is to go to a GP, who is trained to treat their life experiences as an illness.

THE European Parliament’s Petitions Committee is investigating claims by two former mental health patients that the Mental Health Act is in clear violation of international law.

I CONGRATULATE the Irish Examiner for highlighting the fact that we are indeed a Prozac Nation (March 28).

I WOULD like to endorse Mary Maddock’s letter regarding psychiatric patients forced to endure damaging treatments (The Irish Examiner, March 6).

AS a psychiatric survivor, I endorse Sean Fleming’s letter (The Irish Examiner, March 2).

I CONGRATULATE Sean Fleming, for drawing attention to the subject of forced treatment in psychiatry (Irish Examiner letters, January 9).

I WISH to congratulate Tony Humphreys (Feelgood, Irish Examiner, August 4) and Asta Engebretsen (Irish Examiner letters, August 11) for their very important contributions to a more enlightened approach to mental health issues.

I WISH to congratulate Nuria O’Mahony on her letter headlined ‘Change prescription drugs regulations’ (Irish Examiner, May 9).

YOUR correspondent Seán Fleming (Irish Examiner letters, January 3) says that “so-called anti-psychotic drugs are supposedly meant to treat schizophrenia and manic depressive illness”.

MARY MADDOCK never imagined she would one day kick her dependence on three mind-altering drugs she was told she needed to take to treat her manic depression.