Thinking About Mental Illness is Depressing

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Australian research confirms that dwelling upon mental illness and its social consequences contributes to depressive symptoms in people with schizophrenia diagnoses.

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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He and his partner, Luisa Putnam, joined by their mutual interest in working with trauma and psychosis, studied Open Dialogue in Finland and Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the UK in order to practice and teach as a team. In 2011, they joined with Robert Whitaker to found the Mad in America website

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    • Very well said. But of course they still tell us that we are ill and will be for life. They tell us that we cannot do anything and will require this medication for life. Then they wonder, WHY we become depressed?? At least they have given some logical answers to questions. But I’m sure the solution is simply handing everyone diagnosed with schizophrenia, antidepressents, that is the standard treatment in Australia. I notice that they don’t go into that, just say that this may explain why in some cases!!!

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