Psychiatric drugs enter the story as an answer to ordinary struggles: insomnia, grief, a rough patch after college, a child's tantrums. Medicating Normal follows several people, including a young couple prescribed antidepressants and stimulants during a difficult stretch of their lives, and a mother whose son is put on psychiatric medication as a teenager, as prescriptions escalate into years of dependence, withdrawal, and in some cases hospitalization. Psychiatrists, researchers, and former patients describe how easily a single prescription for anxiety or sleeplessness can turn into a stack of medications treating side effects of other medications, and how difficult and dangerous withdrawal can become after long-term use. The filmmakers interview clinicians who defend cautious prescribing alongside doctors and patients who argue the system rewards fast diagnosis over careful listening. Court records, medical files, and home video document individual cases in detail rather than relying on statistics alone. The film's argument is that normal human distress is being treated as chronic illness, with consequences that can outlast the problem that started it.