Chasing Symptoms and Bypassing Cures
We live in a culture of symptom-chasing. Our medical professionals are highly skilled symptom-evaders*, our medicine cabinets are packed with symptom-easers, and mental health is discussed even less often than mental illness, which is saying a lot. It makes sense; it’s easier to highlight what is wrong, to make a bullet list of things we’d … More Chasing Symptoms and Bypassing Cures