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The lie of numbness: Roger McFillin on psychiatry’s betrayal of emotion

The lie of numbness: Roger McFillin on psychiatry’s betrayal of emotion

Update: 2025-09-06
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America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Roger McFillin, Psy.D., challenges psychiatry’s medicalization of human struggle, warning that antidepressants numb emotion and create dependence. He defends grief and pain as vital teachers, not illnesses to be erased. Critiquing cultural disconnection, technology, and labels like ADHD, he urges a return to nature, resilience, and authentic feeling as paths to healing and meaning...
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The lie of numbness: Roger McFillin on psychiatry’s betrayal of emotion

The lie of numbness: Roger McFillin on psychiatry’s betrayal of emotion

Dr. Randall Bock