Category: Mental Health
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We’ve medicalized normal grief
Grief is painful but not pathological. Turning ordinary mourning into a billable disorder helps the system more than the bereaved — and changes how we recover.
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Involuntary commitment is broken in both directions
America commits too few people who need help and too many who don’t. The system fails patients, families, and communities — and reform is genuinely hard.
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Antidepressants don’t work as well as we’ve been told for decades
The marketing said ‘chemical imbalance.’ The trials say something more modest. Antidepressants help some patients meaningfully — and many far less than advertised.
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PTSD is over-diagnosed and trauma is under-defined
Trauma has expanded as a clinical concept while PTSD diagnoses have grown — and the imprecision is starting to harm both clinical care and public discourse.
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Mental health awareness campaigns may be making outcomes worse
Mental health awareness campaigns are universally praised but increasingly questioned. Some research suggests broad symptom messaging may worsen outcomes for some.
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Mindfulness has been stripped of everything that made it work
Corporate mindfulness teaches you to manage stress instead of question its source. The traditional practice it’s based on does the opposite.