Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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They are buckets that we use to organize the way we think about people.
We put people with certain behaviors and emotions and feelings into certain buckets because we see them following a certain pattern.
But more than that, these diagnoses are not.
They are not mapped onto something biological that is going on in people's brains.
They are not causative.
Someone does not have anxiety because they have generalized anxiety disorder.
Rather, you know, generalized anxiety is this bucket that we put them in because we've seen that pattern of behavior.
You know, having honesty about what a diagnosis is, I think is very important.
Then we need to have honesty about what treatments are and what they do.
And this is again a similar concept because I need my patients to understand that when I am giving them an antidepressant or an antipsychotic, I'm not giving them a silver bullet that is working on the depression lesion in their brain or the psychosis lesion in their brain.
I'm giving them a neurological
chemical that has effects, all kinds of effects in their body and all over the in in their brain and all over their body.
Um
But I need patients to realize that these drugs are not silver bullets, but rather they are um chemicals that help us to cope with some, but not all, of the symptoms of mental distress.
And they can be helpful, you know, i in that respect, but they are not curing an illness.
And I think we've done a great disservice with, you know, the chemical imbalance theory of the way these drugs.
Drugs work, but patients don't know that there in fact is no chemical imbalance in the brain of people who are depressed or people who even have schizophrenia.
We haven't shown any kind of chemical imbalance.
And you know, I think most people are shocked to learn that.
There's a discourse going on in um, you know, in kind of the critical literature about care.
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