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How to Cure a Mental Illness

How to Cure a Mental Illness

Hint: It's not by prescribing medication

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Steven Colborne
May 14, 2025
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The mental health system is ruled by psychiatrists who generally take a materialistic view of the human person. The idea, loosely speaking, is that states of mind are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain that can be rectified, at least partially, by medication. People are labelled with diagnoses which essentially create the impression that there …

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