Mental Illness

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The key to the problems that we have called mental illness isn't, let's fix the disease process, since there is no disease process to fix. It is, how well do you function in society, and how is this working for you? We'll see. Inyou is i nobody else does. Right? One of the things i'm really struggling with is when you say it like this, my issue is, mental illness is not an illness, because there's no identifiable, testable problem with a physical body part or organ. Or even yes, or even theorized, ok, yes. There are some diseases that we accept or or diseases, but we can't test for them

Dr. Ruby earned his Ph.D. in 1995 at Florida State University. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 20 years of military service as a criminal, counterintelligence, and counterespionage special agent and investigative psychologist in many capacities across the globe. Following his military career, Dr. Ruby has been a psychologist and coach in private practice.

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Why does Dr. Ruby believe calling mental illness an 'illness' is a problem?
What advice does Dr. Ruby give those who are dealing with depression and anxiety?

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