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Friday, 29, March, 2024

We’ve Backed the Wrong Horse – It’s Time For Our Love Affair With Psychiatric...

Psychiatric drugs can’t address isolation, poverty, inequality, racism, intolerance, hatred, bigotry, sexism, etc., but they can mask those things. Perhaps that is why they are so successful. The blame is placed on us, the patient, for being broken because it obviates the need for powers that be to take any action to address those underlying causes of distress and suffering.