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The history of mental health treatment is rife with with all kinds of dysfunction, horror, and failure. When we're living in a time when mental health problems seem larger and more prevalent than ever, the solutions need to be better then ever and in finding the right solutions, it's imperative that we look to history, not for failures, but for the successes because some of the most impressive successes ever recorded were going on over 200 years ago. What went right? Why did it go right? How do we take what was done and repeat or even improve upon it? One thing is for sure, if achieving an almost complete solution to mental health problems has been done before, it can be done again.

Be sure to check out these books referenced in today's episode:

Mad in America by Robert Whitaker - https://www.amazon.com/Mad-America-Medicine-Enduring-Mistreatment-ebook/dp/B07RJR5PQR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3452HBBE221T5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.a3oS9JzXTIGArkrVjlyY4BSHtEoxXLmws1CzHV-g8V8S83-6I_khMqF9dNE-OWAV4EXMTN8RChjVzJHHoIDjomI1w9fudU8mApibwkWQcweBWkUAxFKecLpriiNz9kJ4b5urR3oxYvbzSW-S1WDcuixyu5VP4DCZEXdsHO4c2l9s6SH9x7hR6ehb5r4ihcIYwWEVn_4iVb7RkNv2sIBXK1wkVssWauft849_W4tg1f8.LEEZErrrSu0oQ2nUGfYLEDXXMcHl3djB8v2tLm_04Vo&dib_tag=se&keywords=mad+in+america&qid=1720766048&s=digital-text&sprefix=mad+in+%2Cdigital-text%2C80&sr=1-1

Blessed and Cursed and Won by Oliver J Tanner - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095YYK54C?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tpbk_tkin

Gravity Always Wins is an exploration of true principles that shape and govern the world we live in, demonstrate how to build and maintain freedom, and determine our eternal reality and destiny just as completely and just as undeniably as gravity's effect on the shape of our planet, solar system, galaxy, and beyond. Gravity Always Wins is a little more concerned with liberty than astronomy because it's just a little closer to home, and host Oliver Tanner has spent a lifetime seeking a better understanding of how it all works together. True principles are active in religion, politics, interpersonal relationships, and all other areas of life. Oliver has a lot to say on the topic so buckle up, settle in, and hold on!

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