Vol VIII, Issue 3
Date of Publication: July 02, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2022.082
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Numbing social distress is not mental health
Lwam Ghebrehariat
Elia Abi-Jaoude
Abstract:
In a recent encounter with a patient struggling with anxiety, it became obvious that the patient had been experiencing significant stressors at work and had limited supports. Due diligence as a mental healthcare provider means the patient would have been screened for an anxiety disorder, and having been duly diagnosed, would have been offered first-line “treatment” in the form of cognitive behavioural therapy and a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) drug. This might have helped alleviate some of the patient’s anxiety, or “symptoms”, to enable them to tolerate their work conditions.
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