Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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They see mental distress on an individual level rather than a social and structural level.
Biological reductionism.
So, you know, they see mental distress as something that is purely biological in the brains of people, something, some kind of a lesion broken in someone's brain.
Um, rather.
Than something that could also be social and political.
Um, and then ahistorical, you know, um the sci disciplines when they're thinking about mental distress in an individual patient are completely ahistorical um and blind to the fact that, you know, what has happened historically to a person and to a society has a bearing on our current
emotions, behaviors, uh, and um feelings and
What I like to say when people, you know, push back on on this idea.
They're like, oh, well, so you think that the, you know, m mental illness is not biological?
And I'm like, no.
Mental illness is biological.
It's biological in that, you know, while you're experiencing distress, there are neurotransmitters and neurochemicals firing off in our brain, as they are in the conversation that we're having right now and the feelings that we're having right now.
But seeing what a depressed brain looks like on a scan is not showing you the cause.
We have to remember that.
Whatever you see on an fMRI scan is just a reflection of that person's state of mind.
Primary care, we're typically given 10 minutes to see a patient.
Um, and we have to see as many patients as possible, as quickly as possible, nail the diagnosis, do all of their preventative care, do their, you know, diabetes care, their asthma care, make sure um that everything is okay.
Um, and of course, you know.
We need to pay attention to their mental health.
And so we ask a two-point question, the PHQ.
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