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It is exactly this type of attitude we have had since the dark ages that much development of treatment and studies are now only beginning to take more shape.
We have to have a much wider awareness of mental illness and how it affects the basic human rights.
I can only sympathize with what Evan and Stephen went through. We must break the stigma against mental illness. It is far too wide reaching and impactful not to be at the forefront of technology innovation and health research. I challenge new startups to start attacking depression and anxiety disorders. The best solution to depression is often simply finding what works for you through trial and error of available opt…
Make every day count!
Care to say what was his actual problem was? And how did he passed out?
Care to say what was his actual problem was? And how did he passed out?
So in other words, conventional psychiatry failed. And the author's solution seems to be to spread it more.
Maybe after a failure like this, where we see that the care providers, hospital and "highly-respected treatment program" don't work, it's time to stop respecting that treatment program so much and consider different approaches.
I can only sympathize with what Evan and Stephen went through. We must break the stigma against mental illness. It is far too wide reaching and impactful not to be at the forefront of technology innovation and health research. I challenge new startups to start attacking depression and anxiety disorders. The best solution to depression is often simply finding what works for you through trial and error of available opt…
How? People are labelled mentally ill IFF they do things that have a stigma attached.
Care to say what was his actual problem was? And how did he passed out?
Yea, I feel that's kind of important to the whole thing. Talk about what the illness was, not about the person. For all I know it could be anything from autophagia to trichotillomania.
I can only sympathize with what Evan and Stephen went through. We must break the stigma against mental illness. It is far too wide reaching and impactful not to be at the forefront of technology innovation and health research. I challenge new startups to start attacking depression and anxiety disorders. The best solution to depression is often simply finding what works for you through trial and error of available opt…
> We must break the stigma against mental illness How? People are labelled mentally ill IFF they do things that have a stigma attached.