Truth In Love · TIL 260: The Diseasing of Anxiety and Depression
Dale Johnson: This week once again, I’m joined by Dr. Sam Stephens, our Director of Training Center Certification and we are here to talk about mental disorders. This week we’re going to talk about anxiety and depression specifically. Certainly we could separate these out but we wanted to try and tackle these because there’s a similar narrative that runs throughout both of these types of disorders as they’re defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
I want us to be aware of some of the things that are undergirding the idea behind mental health as it relates to these particular categories of anxiety and depression. We’re in the month of May, this is Mental Health Awareness Month. We want to raise these issues so that you can be more aware of the language that’s used out there.
Sam, there are several ways that we could address this and I think it’s important for us to consider the time that we’re currently in. We’ve been dealing with the idea of a pandemic now for four or five months. We are wrestling with
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