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Dr. Chuck Ruby - Is Mental Illness a Myth?

Smart People Podcast

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Mental Illness

"I have been criticized very strongly in the past by people for saying this, what i'm saying now," he says. "Mental disability is just as figurative and metaphorical as a mental illness." He adds that depression does not take away one's ability to do differently. 'None of the mental illness diagnostic categories are crippling in that literal sense'

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