Dr. Gabor Maté

What if we saw a disease

of all kinds, mental or physical, or addiction, not as the things in themselves that have their own nature, but as processes that manifest our lives.

And if I live my life differently, then I can have an impact on that process.

So that process will change.

That's exactly actually how it is.

So for shorthand language, I understand it's helpful to say I have depression.

Right.

How important is the words we choose?

But if we...

buy into that language, we're actually missing a point because you don't have it.

There's no it that's separate from you.

And that means that if you change yourself, in fact, there's a friend of mine now, a recent friend, Dr. Jeff Rediger, who's a psychiatrist at Harvard.

And last year, he wrote a book called Cured, The Science of Spontaneous Healing.

That was

Now, he studied people who were terminally ill, documentably so, they had no prognosis whatsoever, and then they get better.

Or months or weeks.

I've talked to such people myself.

And they've cured their disease.

There's a woman called a psychologist called Kelly Turner who studied the same thing.

She wrote a book called Radical Remission.