The new President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Simon Wessely, recently signalled his concerns about overmedicalisation in children. In an interview with The Times newspaper in the UK, he said that “Medicalisation is not often done by doctors…Now we see a huge rise in support groups, we see pressure brought to bear to bring in labels…You get obvious pressure from parents…It’s psychiatry which is against the medicalisation of normality.” Specifically in relation to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD), he went on: “It’s the same with Ritalin.