Depression and anxiety are just symptoms—here's what's underneath

Описание: Dr. Reidbord, a practicing psychiatrist with eons of experience 🦕, discusses how depression and anxiety are often like fever: nonspecific symptoms of a deeper problem.

There are many ways to treat low mood and anxiety — if you just stop there. But only depth psychotherapy (and psychoanalysis) aim for the psychological roots of the problem.

Is it worth it to seek the root of the problem? That's your call.

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Timecodes
0:00 Intro
1:06 Mood problems can be strictly medical
2:36 Psychiatric medications treat symptoms
2:49 Non-drug symptom relief
3:19 CBT is also for symptom relief
4:12 Depression and anxiety are nonspecific signs, like fever
5:08 It's important to look for causes
5:24 Traditional psychoanalysts don't treat symptoms
6:17 Reasons psychoanalysts don't treat symptoms
7:30 Those reasons are unsupported
7:51 Psychodynamic therapists seek underlying causes AND treat symptoms
8:43 Drawbacks to only treating symptoms
10:20 Mental health is more than lack of symptoms
11:00 3 choices: treat symptoms, underlying causes, or both
12:47 I recommend treating both
13:12 Mental health professionals offer different things
13:58 Depth psychotherapy

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