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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

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But society then became fully entrenched in the idea that mental health is a genetic or a chemical imbalance, which worked too well for pharmaceutical marketing. The problem with the genetic model is that if treatments don’t work, people lose hope and feel beyond repair, thinking they’re inherently broken. Am I a bad doctor?

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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Justine accepted that the problem was her, or at least it was her depression. Either you must admit that you’re on honest person, weather pending, or you have to be flexible with social constructs like “sick” or “honest.” The therapy to which they referred was entirely pharmaceutical—it was always a failure to improve with medication.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Through the four businesses she has founded, which span strategic services, design, construction and events, Burgess helps solve problems for good and create spaces and events that make you feel happy. She is a problem solver, a solution maven, and an avid investor in emerging brands and creator of her own CPG brands. .

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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs. Likewise, when we sever people from the natural rhythms and connections to their natural environment, we risk causing problems that remain beyond our understanding. But these patternsseen as symptomsare shaped by systems and constructs psychiatry rarely questions.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

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Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. Together, we drafted an open letter laying out the problems with the DSM-5. Its just taken for granted.