Sammy McDonald’s Post

Let’s rethink healthcare  I love that Denmark are taking a new approach to “putative” mental illness with the redesign of their latest psychiatric hospital and their intention to reframe mental disorders to destigmatised - it’s definitely a step in the right direction, however, I believe I t’s important to remember that just because something looks like psychiatry, doesn’t mean it is psychiatric. There are a multitude of causalities that bring inflammation of the brain resulting in putative “mental illness” and behavioural abnormalities that have us wondering where our loved ones have disappeared to. We need to change this outdated social construct and recognise what is truly creating the increase of behavioural issues in our globe and admit we’ve been treating the issues incorrectly which is why medications DO NOT work.  Head traumas, tumours, abuse, stress, spillover of pathogens from animals to humans, processed foods, pollution, substance abuse, etc etc etc are just some of the root cause of inflammation of the brain resulting in abnormal behaviours. April’s story in the Washington post recently is just one representative story - after 20yrs of misdiagnosis goes home after it’s discovered an immune issue was responsible for her illness. “New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain” There are too many stories showing how wrong we have been about psychiatry so #letsrethinkhealthcare  Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e4Se2KND