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

So if if a person could hold themselves up now in their apartment for three months, you know, or the take out delivery and watch Netflix for three months. voice-verified

That could never happen in a hunter-gatherer society. voice-verified

And what that isolation can do is then promote a positive feedback loop where you get more and more sad and more and more voice-verified

depressed. voice-verified

And then I think potentially that's where things can go wrong neurobiologically. voice-verified

I think that's potentially where things can become much more dysfunctional. voice-verified

And that's how you can potentially end up with the kind of depression where someone doesn't speak or they don't eat or they don't drink. voice-verified

So it's not purely the brain going wrong per se, but the brain being allowed to go wrong because it's under such extraordinary circumstances that you would rarely expect in nature in in a hunter-gatherer society someone would pay attention to you at some point because the second you're out of the tribe functionally you're kind of dead in those times, you know. voice-verified

Whereas now we can be in these really very strange circumstances. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And I guess in an increasing sliding scale, like it's a slow progression. voice-verified

Like as a soci society, we've slowly but surely progressed to a state where we value slower work, work delayed across months and years, work that's more abstract, less less hands-on. voice-verified

Even with ADHD, you can find there are um there's a spectrum. voice-verified

There's like the milder, moderate end, and then there's like really severe ADHD. voice-verified

Where you really see that come on someone can't sit still for like basically any length of time, can't stay on a topic of conversation. voice-verified

And then you wonder, now are we perhaps in the disorder realm? voice-verified

I'd encourage everyone to go read your new book, The Madness Spill. voice-verified

Maybe before we finish, what do you think is like the key lesson that what was the key lesson you learned when you read about the events that that you wrote about in this book? voice-verified

And lastly, are there any books you would recommend, books that have been particularly influential for you when you started learning about mental health or perhaps the philosophy of mental health? voice-verified

Professor Justin Garsons, he's a professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. voice-verified

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