The medical model of psychology says all disorders are chemical and need to be treated with expensive drugs with a host of agonizing side effects. What if the medical model is wrong? What if your brain has valid reasons to adapt to your pain and terror? What if you can fix it?
Working within the psychology community as a licensed professional: yes. It’s twitter so without limits I might have specified that all disorders are primarily chemical with perhaps experiential beginnings which trigger an existing genetic predisposition which requires medication
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This the medical model treats mental health as primarily a chemical disorder and pays an afterthought to behavioral solutions. Many medical providers scoff at behavioral treatments as actual cures to mental health issues and teach the disorders are permanent without meds.
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This division is sharp and hotly contested across the field of psychology. But people see the field as one unified monolithic structure stating that all disorders require medication.
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Correct. The medical model has been our lens for interpreting mental health. However, there have been experiments to treat schizophrenia with intensive inpatient family therapy and zero meds, and the results far surpass medication in effectiveness and long-term wellbeing.
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