A new paradigm for mental healthcare

We're continuing to look in a different direction for #MentalHealthAwareness week.

Generally speaking, us humans do like to complicate things. We think that the further we get into the detail of something, the more answers we will find.

In the world of mental health treatments, this means more and more diagnostic labels, and more tailored treatments – the notion of ‘precision psychiatry’ is actually a thing! 😳

But the Innate Health understanding looks in the opposite direction: upstream, to simplicity.

How does that translate to mental health?

Well, maybe a little bit like this:

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There's no right and wrong here, just doing what makes sense, given the perspective we're looking at things from.

For me, it all boils down to that quote from the academic paper I'm reading from:

“Everyone experiences symptoms of disordered thought, negative emotions, and strong urges to act. However, if people understand they do not have to believe in the ‘reality’ of these experiences, their psychological functioning will remain healthy.”

If you'd like to read the full paper (it's one of my favourites), then you can download it here:

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This clip was taken from the Models of Mental Healthcare Topic Deep Dive: a myth-busting 38 minutes where we cover (among other things):

• A plain-English tour of the standard ‘medical model’ of mental healthcare (Biological-Psychological-Social) and why, for all its clinical utility, it keeps us trapped, focusing on symptoms, rather than causes
• Caspi & Moffitt's landmark journal paper “All for One and One for All: Mental Disorders in One Dimension” - and the profound implications of a single general factor underpinning all mental illness
• A thoughtful ‘Inside-Out’ focused commentary piece on the article, from 3 Principles teachers Kelley, Pettit, Pransky & Sedgeman, that takes these scientific findings one step further
• What the Innate Health understanding has to say about the root cause of all psychological suffering
• Why the answer lies in simplicity , not ever-increasing complexity… and what that means for mental healthcare in practice.

This isn't a critique of psychiatry for its own sake. It's an invitation to look in a genuinely fresh direction – one with profound implications for how we understand suffering, and what we can actually do about it.

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