Emotional Health in the Age of Disconnection

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A Midwestern Doctor Many people believe the most significant issues facing the Western World are emotional in nature (e.g., anxiety is often termed the disease of the modern age). In turn, a common observation is how often the emotional patterns individuals carry end up controlling their lives (frequently causing them to make terrible decisions) and […]

Psychiatry Will Not Save Us from Lockdown Harm

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Robert Freudenthal The mental health consequences of our pandemic response are predictable, with many warning  right from the start of the likely psychiatric consequences of the withdrawing of most structures of civic society for a period of months on end.  Too often the priorities are framed as a balancing act between “physical health consequences from […]