new book joe just medication generation grows up and she joins us now from our studios in new york city caitlin 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 in psychiatric or psychotropic medications mind and emotional during that occasions 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 of people have really had their personalities shaped by these medications and i think it's hard to say in any one single way what exactly that means which is why i took an entire book to say it. different people i think are shaped in very different and very diverse ways by these medications and also i think it's important to note that you know when when we say medications as a class i'm making a generalization but there are many different kinds of psychotropic medications we have kinds to treat a.d.h. the kinds of treat depression kinds to treat more you know severe conditions like bipolar disorder