What If We Treated Depression Like An Injury? #shorts #mentalhealth #depression #ssri #therapy
Why Mental Health Treatment Needs an End Date #shorts #mentalhealth #depression #ssri #therapy
What if we treated stretches of depression less like a disease and more like an injury?
It’s a provocative question, and one that Self-Funded with Spencer guest Amil Patel raised during this week’s podcast.
Instead of going the traditional route of prescribing SSRIs, which are focused on easing symptoms, what if we re-thought how we approach mental healthcare and tried to get to the root of what’s causing people to struggle?
Psychedelic therapy, and ketamine therapy, are relatively new and are still being studied, but they both have a really important distinction from the traditional mental health treatment approach: they have an end date.
Check out this week’s full episode of Self-Funded with Spencer on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.