One in five Americans take commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs on a daily basis. While these drugs can provide effective short-term relief, pharmaceutical companies have hidden -- from both doctors and patients -- their dangers and long-term harm. Medicating Normal, follows the stories of a newly married couple, a female combat veteran, a waitress and a teenager who are damaged by the very medications they believed would help them. It is the untold story of the disastrous consequences that can occur when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.