Craig Plays Goalie-- The Psychedelics Today interview
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and Psychedelics
11/24/20
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The podcast Psychedelics Today recently released a two part interview with Will Hall, an author, podcaster, therapist, and voice of the anti-psychiatry community. This BFTA episode came about after Dr. H reached out to the hosts of PT and asked for a counterpoint to Will's complete dismissal of psychiatry as a meaningful part of the mental health treatment community.
Here Dr. H presents a more nuanced, balanced, and hopeful perspective, one that recognizes the harm that psychiatrists and other physicians have caused in the past and continue to cause today, while also asking that we try to lean into the positive, to identify and celebrate what works for people, to reject the black/white thinking that calls for tearing down systems which are, by their very nature, messy and imperfect, just as we humans are messy and imperfect.
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Steering into the hard stuff-- A father and husband's story
November 10, 2020
•43m
Dr. H sits down with his friend Brian, who watched his daughter, and then his wife, plunge into the depressive abyss. This is the journey of a father and husband, of a "we can fix this" engineer trying to find a path through the ambiguity and uncertainty of psychiatric treatment.
This is the second in an intermittent series of family members describing their journey of trying to support their loved ones through their darkest times.
Grief and loss raft trips (mentioned by Brian)
https://www.pathfindersforyou.org
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Psychiatric diagnosis guides treatment....except when it doesn't
December 8, 2020
•51m
In most specialties of medicine, the dictum "Diagnosis guides treatment" is the law of the land. In psychiatry, however, most of what we treat are often overlapping syndromes, not actual diseases, and these syndromes involve hugely varying dimensions of symptoms with a vast array of potential causes and exacerbating factors.
Maggie came to Dr. H with a challenging clinical presentation: likely genetic loading for a mood and/or anxiety disorder, childhood emotional neglect, years of school problems, hormone irregularities and progesterone hypersensitivity, all leading to steadily worsening mood instability, depression, and hopelessness. Over the course of the last 12 years, Maggie and Dr. H were eventually able to co-create both a successful treatment course and a shame-free narrative, without a clear diagnosis to guide them.
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