The Harm of Romanticizing Alternative Methods for Mental Health

This week, (very nearly Dr.) Cara Santa Maria joins the guys to review a documentary that asks "what if mental illness is actually a magic power that we shouldn't be medicating away?", and never realizes that all the alternatives are terrifying, even after showing some of them on screen.

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