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Radically Genuine Podcast with Dr. Roger McFillin
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The Impact of Talk Therapy on Mental Illness
The shift from talk therapy to drugs as the dominant mode of treatment coincides with the emergence over the past four decades of the theory that mental illness is caused primarily by chemical imbalances in the brain. Why don't people know about this? What can we do to get them to do that? And why are they underreported? It's a really good question. First of all, I think the majority of the population doesn't read scientific data and scientific studies. So like assume that people are going to be interested in that is just not realistic, I think. The widespread impact of just periods of low mood and fear and anxiety things that are like a normal part of the human condition are not
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