going to make for tonight's conversations with great minds as caitlin bella barnett caitlin is a journalist blogger and author she writes about mental health topics for the huffington post about young people's experience medications at my meds myself a blog at the psychology website site central she's held positions at the atlanta constitution journal and st louis post dispatch has worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of publications including the new york observer and parents magazine she graduated dartmouth college as well as the columbia university journalism school caitlin is also the author of the new book dosed the medication generation grows up and she joins us now from our studios in new york city kalen welcome. thanks so much for having me thanks for joining us tonight you write that your generation is the first in history to have a certain a significant percentage grow up on psychiatric medications mind and emotional during medications what does that mean for us as a culture and for the future of your generation. well i think that it means that a significant percentage o