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Can You Cure Depression with this One Weird Trick?

Can You Cure Depression with this One Weird Trick?

Psychiatry might not care if Monday’s blue, but patients are waiting for the Cure

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Owen Scott Muir, M.D, DFAACAP
Jul 11, 2022
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Robert Smith and the rest of the Cure. This band has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Their melodic style of rock is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”

Behold, the TL;DR—

Psychiatry sucks at communicating. We don’t trust mental health treatment to be curative because we shouldn’t, and it’s not.

FDA Breakthrough treatments like SNT neuromodulation by Magnus Medical have the potential to relieve suffering vastly more than current treatments.

Read on:

Let’s pretend I was going to try to defend the click-bait title of this post. It could start with the level of off-putting defensiveness modern medicine tends to favor. I could emphasize credentials, and bully my audience into agreement…and for the sake of the argument, I’m going to do just that:

Hi there. It’s DOCTOR Muir. Not Mister. I am a psychiatrist. No, Not a psychologist—different. I went to medical school. I am a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. That’s actual…

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