E189 | Psychiatry Treats Mental Disorders: But What Is Mental Health? (w/ John T. Maier)
We talk constantly about “mental health”, but do we actually know what it is? Psychiatry is very good at defining mental disorders: depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, anxiety and many others. But that raises a more fundamental question: what does a mentally healthy person actually look like? In this episode, Dr Alex is…
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