Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan
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271 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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We perhaps would do better to teach people what normal looks like and learn how to support children without labeling them. Why can't we recognize that a child is struggling a bit in school and can do with learning differently without calling them neurodevelopmentally abnormal? So I think maybe we change the names. Support people without labels would be really useful.
I mean, you're right. I don't think it's very simple. It would require a huge overhaul of systems in order to allow us to support people without medicalizing them.
Also, we've got no support systems outside of medical institutions. Where do people go who are suffering? A doctor is a place you can still go. Perhaps we need better support systems for people that are not surrounding medical institutions.
They don't feel the need to be labeled to belong to a group and to get support.
Therapy, or is that still to... I think that's still sort of medicalized. People just want to belong to a community. And the UK, the church isn't quite so prominent. It's slightly different in the US. In the UK, I'd say that system of being supported by your church has really been lost. But, you know, I'm not advocating for that idea. But there is something to be said.
difficult for people to hear some of the things that I'm saying. And I do understand that.
You know, I think that a lot of people in the world are aware that something isn't going right. Mental health problems, something like one in five people in the world now has a mental health diagnosis. And there is something definitely wrong there. Sometimes it can be frightening to be honest about what you think is going wrong.
But I think a lot of people have a lot of suspicions that aren't being voiced. And we do need to have these discussions more openly.
I was absolutely thrilled and delighted to be here. I'm honored. So thank you so much.
Yeah.
Wow.
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