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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

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A functional psychiatrist may consider one patient’s depression to be the compounding result of childhood trauma and hypothyroidism, and another’s to be the result of metabolic issues, autoimmunity, and food allergies. For example, a condition like depression can both contribute to, and be caused by, multiple other health conditions.

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care

Mad in America

This change wasn’t because of scientific breakthroughsit happened at the same time as the drug industry was growing, insurance companies were asking for standard diagnoses, and professional psychiatry wanted to be seen as just as prestigious as physical medicine.