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This was very good. It rings true to my own experience with depression. Summary: 1) There is a lot of overlap in the symptoms of mental disorders that we label distinct: depression, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, bipolar, etc. Mental disorders are often comorbid with each other (if you have one you are more likely to have others). And drugs meant for one disorder often work on others. For example, antidepressants are often prescribed for anxiety, bipolar, and schizophrenia, not just depression. DSM haters know this one: psychiatry applies the medical gaze to taxonomize symptoms into “illnesses,” even though the symptoms are complex phenomena of mind not body, and the underlying physical illness is often not observable or understood. I was reminded here of Thomas Szasz, who famously said mental illness is a “myth” without an explanation of physical disease. Well, what if there *is* a coherent physical explanation?

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Firstly, i’d like to say you did a really good job putting this together I agree with your points There’s always this question we ask patients when they come to the hospital, ‘’ do you have a support system ‘’, because without this whatever treatment being given to the patient might not be effective. who’s gonna be there with you through your recovery?. When a patient falls sick, and isn’t responding to treatment on time, it very easy for such patient to fall into depression quickly which in turn can lead to other comorbidity but when a support system is there, it’s unlikely There’s a lot that can be said on mental disorders, but that’s not my field I’d give the book a read, thanks for this

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