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191 - Holding the Line on Liberal Values, with Helen Pluckrose and Carrie Clark

Gender: A Wider Lens

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Reassessing Mental Health Paradigms

This chapter recounts the speaker's disillusionment with the NHS mental health services and their journey towards alternative healing methods. It highlights the challenges young people face in defining their identities amidst societal and medical expectations, particularly in the context of gender and mental health. The discussion also critiques the over-medicalization of emotional struggles and argues for a nuanced understanding of mental health, emphasizing the need for informed consent and flexibility in identity concepts.

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