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One of the recent challenges in mental health has been the medicalization of wider swaths of everyday life. Clinicians are increasingly treating problems in living as if they were biological in origin and reflective of pathology rather than typical and expectable reactions to life events. This has led to a conflation of difficulties and setbacks with severe depression, exaggerating the former and minimizing the latter in popular conception. Here Harrington explores how this evolution has taken place in the last 40 years.
One of the recent challenges in mental health has been the medicalization of wider swaths of everyday life. Clinicians are increasingly treating problems in living as if they were biological in origin and reflective of pathology rather than typical and expectable reactions to life events. This has led to a conflation of difficulties and setbacks with severe depression, exaggerating the former and minimizing the latter in popular conception. Here Harrington explores how this evolution has taken place in the last 40 years.
A very good discussion about the placebo effect when studying efficacy of antidepressants. I agree that there is definitely over medicalisation of everyday events such as reactive depression where prompt access to talking therapies and emotional support would be much better options than starting medication. Unfortunately (certainly in the UK) there is a bottleneck in access to these services and I feel this allows time for an "organic" depression to set in. Tricky indeed and certainly an area where a strong patient-practioner partnership that is holistic in its approach and targets beliefs and expections can help.
A very good discussion about the placebo effect when studying efficacy of antidepressants. I agree that there is definitely over medicalisation of everyday events such as reactive depression where prompt access to talking therapies and emotional support would be much better options than starting medication. Unfortunately (certainly in the UK) there is a bottleneck in access to these services and I feel this allows time for an "organic" depression to set in. Tricky indeed and certainly an area where a strong patient-practioner partnership that is holistic in its approach and targets beliefs and expections can help.
I don't know why the US has such a hard time accepting things can have both biological and social origins
I don't know why the US has such a hard time accepting things can have both biological and social origins
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