The worst aspect of medicalizing anxiety disorders and common forms of mental depression is that it distracts attention from social and economic causes such stress over crushing debt, lack of opportunity and a corrupt food system. We need to look at causes, not just symptoms.

Apr 8, 2021 · 1:29 PM UTC

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You’re the first person besides my therapist in the 80’s who’s ever said that! Anxiety is fear suppressing anger she would say. Feelings are feelings not mental issues. We make everything worse than it really is!
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This can be applied to all fields of medicine. We need a healthcare system - not disease maintenance.
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The opioid crisis is a perfect example of predation on a condition caused by our broken economic and political systems crushing people and rendering them hopeless.
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That’s the entire functional medicine philosophy. How I wish it was more integrated in medical schools.
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Let me tell you from the medical side of the house, it was confluence of big pharma (Zoloft), intro of hmo’s, greed$ and cms pain management directives.
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Our economic system does not make us feel truly safe, whether we realise it or not we are in almost constant fight or flight mode. It is exhausting for our adrenal glands so we end up anxious and depressed.
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I think this is an instance of two things being true at the same time.
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Was listening to some fantastic neuroscientists on CH-I think food awareness could lift the brain fog just enough to emit goodness throughout