Laura Delano
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735 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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And like me, I think so many people have some kind of, whether it's a crisis or a bump in the road or some kind of difficult life chapter that always has a story behind it.
We don't suffer or break down or go crazy just out of the blue.
There's always a story behind it.
But I think because the current mental health industry is set up in such a way that
there isn't oftentimes space to explore those stories.
Doctors are stressed.
They don't have a lot of time.
They have a lot of paperwork to do.
So you come in, you describe the so-called symptoms that you're experiencing.
And instead of stepping back to say, like, what's the context here?
You know, what's happened to you?
What's happening around you?
It's
okay, those symptoms look like this illness.
Unfortunately, these illnesses are incurable, but manageable with medications.
So, you know, here's my prescription pad and, you know, this is going to help.
I don't blame doctors for
Behaving this way, we have a system, the system itself is fundamentally corrupted and is full of perverse incentive structures that lead people, lead doctors and mental health professionals away from taking time and making space.
But the thousands of stories I've heard are all of people who were in pain turned to the mental health system for help.
mostly encountered really well-meaning mental health professionals who were doing the best they could with the toolkit they had at their disposal and then ended up on one or usually more than one medication with no off-ramp in sight, no endgame, no discussion at the outset of, you know, just so you know, these drugs have only been studied once.
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