Erica Komisar, LCSW, is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, parent guidance expert who has been in private family practice in New York City for more 25 years, and author of Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in The First Three Years Matters. In this episode of the Bottom Line Advocator Podcast, Erica joins Bottom Line President Sarah Hiner to discuss and expand on her recently published op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled “We’re Overmedicating Our Children.” Erica wrote the piece after witnessing the dramatic increase in medicating children for emotional problems (stress response, family issues, trauma, or pressure to achieve). Instead of addressing the underlying issues, she believes that many parents, doctors and practitioners are taking the “easy” solution—silence the symptoms with dangerous medications. How’d we get to this point? And what can we do about it? Listen in as Sarah and Erica get to the bottom of it.