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Elia Abi-Jaoude - Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

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What's the Value of Emotions?

In DSM world, what happens is it triggers an algorithmic response. And often that response can be quite removed from what the adolescents are experiencing. Emotions become suspect and we're conflating suffering with mental illness. In terms of this focus on this individual as a bio, something often depoliticizes the social and economic circumstances that are contributing to one's difficulties.

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