Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders At All [forbes.com]
By Alison Escalante, Forbes, August 11, 2020 What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all? In a compelling new paper , biological anthropologists call on the scientific community to rethink mental illness. With a thorough review of the evidence, they show good reasons to think of depression or PTSD as responses to adversity rather than chemical imbalances. And ADHD could be a way of functioning that evolved in an ancestral...