Dr. Alex Curmi

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2,747 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Dr. Alex Curmi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.

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The Thinking Mind: Mental Health & Personal Growth · E185 | How Psychiatry Became Fixated on Chemical Imbalance (w/ Prof. Justin Garson) · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

And and to be fair, uh there are many cases of psychosis where medication is useful, can be used temporarily, can relieve an acute psychotic episode quickly, and then they might never uh an individual might never have another episode. voice-verified

And then there's plenty of cases where they might continue to take a small or moderate dose of an antipsychotic medication that helps them, you know, function well day to day. voice-verified

So it's not like there's there isn't voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

The other tragedy is that voice-verified

While the causes m and the exact brain mechanics m remain uh mysterious, what it takes to make someone more mentally healthy isn't a mystery, in my view. voice-verified

It's just hard to achieve. voice-verified

Like, for example, we know that for someone to be more likely to be mentally healthy, they need to have a group of people around them to support them. voice-verified

They need to have voice-verified

uh some sort of meaningful task or work to engage in. voice-verified

Their their bodies and their nutrition needs to be okay. voice-verified

They need to do a reasonable amount of physical activity. voice-verified

Uh they need to have an understanding maybe of their internal conflicts if that's a huge issue. voice-verified

There's a whole I could go on and on. voice-verified

But it's actually not that much of a mystery what people need to be mentally healthy. voice-verified

It's just very, very difficult to achieve and often much harder than prescribing a medication, which can be obviously quite simple. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And I I guess from observing your father's experience and your own experience, how would you have wanted the sort of I guess inpatient and outpatient potentially, psychiatric care to be different to what it was? voice-verified

His psychological dynamics. voice-verified

I mean two things that come to mind for me in terms of improving, particularly inpatient psychiatric care, but obviously outpatient as well. voice-verified

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