Dr David Bell - Treating Depression

Dr David Bell, Consultant Psychiatrist, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust shares his thoughts on the tensions between medicalised biological views versus social and psychological views on how to treat depression
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[@sandratrombettaquintans9950]

Dear Dr. Bell, I am a psychoanalyst, linked to SPRPE /IPA/Brasil, and it is conforting to realize your deep commitment and respect for the uniqueness oferecer your patients is present not only with children who suffer from gender dysphoria. Congratulations on your work and thankyou for the rich exposition.

[@alexandrasmith7682]

Please keep speaking up Dr Bell. It is so important that people who actually do grasp issues like depression and transgender treatments such as yourself, continue to explore and talk about these subjects. I remember one of my Professors telling us that as Biochemists we would be encouraged to use and create drugs for depression ... When in fact, medication was not the answer.

[@CIANB]

This man speaks a lot of sense. My experience of psychiatric treatment is that of a long working through of common misconceptions which David describes and elucidates here.

[@arquilli1]

For more about the distinction (and conflation) between mental disorders and cultural issues, recommend checking out “Psyche-pathology and well being” series by John Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist at the university of Toronto. Much of what we dub as “mental” is more “psyche” which has significant social aspects. Distributed cognition helps humans in so many ways, but also leaves us vulnerable to many issues identified by Jung and others. Also worth looking into Greg Henriques’s UTOK for interesting information!