Max Pemberton

My patient was in her late 40s, well dressed, very dry and funny and she ran a department of 30 people. It was only later that I understood she had been unwell for 26 years with an eating disorder.

If you put an opinion in a national newspaper you can hardly object when people disagree. But there's a point at which disagreement turns into something else.

I've been a psychiatrist for more than 20 years, and in that time I've watched ADHD go from a diagnosis made occasionally, after careful assessment, to one that is demanded and all too readily dispensed.

Dr Max Pemberton tells Radio Times that we should look beyond medication and ask why our children are struggling, ahead of his new documentary.

As part of an investigation, Dr Max Pemberton visited a private clinic and was prescribed drugs he says turned him into a zombie

Why lie? I don't mean small, social lies, but what appear to be enormous ones - invented academic posts, fabricated childhood, feats of endurance that never happened...

Last Thursday was A-level results day, and this Thursday it's the turn of GCSEs, which means that for the next fortnight, a great many families will be watching a teenager for signs of distress.

The news that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are moving back to Britain with Archie and Lilibet made me think of what I have witnessed in clinics over the years, during my time as a psychiatrist.

When 42-year-old French lawyer Tiphaine Auziere uploaded some holiday snaps of her boyfriend to her social media pages recently, she probably had no idea of the fuss it would cause.

Picture the scene: a terrace somewhere far-flung and warm, the sun going down, a bottle of rosé in an ice bucket and nothing to do the next morning.