This is a first person account of some experiences as a Nominated Mental Health Support person. I begin with specific events in treatment which illustrate the failure to listen. I then discuss the foundation of biomedicine and psychiatry, showing where psychiatry fails. I then discuss the failure of psychiatry and biomedicine to listen, and in psychiatry’s case, the apparent inability to decide which behaviours are “normal” contra “abnormal”.
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B. J. Muirhead (2026) studied this question.
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