How is any of this good news? We’ve finally hit the tipping point where things can actually start to change.
Showing posts with label DSM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DSM. Show all posts
Monday, May 27, 2013
The Bad News IS the Good News
There’s been a lot of bad news regarding the treatment of mental health problems. The drug companies are declining to do research to find new drugs, the new DSM (the diagnostic dictionary that defines diagnoses like bipolar disorder, panic disorder, OCD, etc.) is under barrage for its lack of scientific basis, we’re losing more soldiers to suicide than to battle, and the Director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has declared that our treatments are “not effective enough” and “in many cases patients receiving the best of current care are not recovering.”*
How is any of this good news? We’ve finally hit the tipping point where things can actually start to change.
How is any of this good news? We’ve finally hit the tipping point where things can actually start to change.
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