People with serious mental illness live, on average, 15 to 25 years less than the rest of us wel and that gap is growing. It deepens whatever mental problems you may be having,. To not have shelter, to not have human contact um. The chances people are actually going to recover from the really serious kinds of mental illness, we're not great.
Despite our efforts, we seem to be no better at treating mental illness than we were hundreds of years ago. Desperate Remedies author Andrew Scull joins Adam to explain why, on the way touching on the history of lobotomization, the collapse of psychoanalysis, and why our current regime of pharmaceutical intervention might not be all it’s cracked up to be. You can purchase Andrew's book here: https://factuallypod.com/books
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