"Unfortunately, clinical psychology and psychiatry have devoted most of their resources to studying the diagnostic labels that summarize the complex mental health states of people, rather than how biopsychosocial processes give rise to mental health problems."
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Eiko Fried
1/ What *are* mental disorders?
I view them as systems of biological, psychological, and social variables. Mental health problems emerge from this system, which is why system and network science are so important for better understanding and treating them.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I view them as systems of biological, psychological, and social variables. Mental health problems emerge from this system, which is why system and network science are so important for better understanding and treating them.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Comments
In my world, it's the small town where the family of never do-gooders who are generationally oppressed by the "sins of the father."
Certainly, there are tendencies towards alcohol abuse and slothfulness (a result of such abuse). And PTSD causing depression and anxiety
but it's nonsense
but we have to have it because it's all we have
but it's completely imaginary
but it's essential
but it's a myth
parsing OCD vs. GAD makes a difference in target SSRI dosing in a way that is important
but it's only as helpful as walking towards the north star is to find the grocery store and it's about time we re-think our navigation systems
We gotta understand chord progressions & dissonance etc to prescribe correctly, and the DSM is where those fundamentals of where to go with prescribing live
but those of us out here writing the Rx's and seeing the patients know that music theory isn't always helpful in jazz
DSM can be a direction pointer though