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Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong – and How to Make Sense of It
Dean Burnett
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In "Psycho-Logical," neuroscientist Dean Burnett demystifies why our minds malfunction, transforming complex psychology into accessible wisdom. Published in 2021 amid growing mental health awareness, this timely guide answers the question we've all wondered: why does the most sophisticated organ - our brain - break down so predictably?

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The Mysterious Landscape of Mental Illness

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When your brain feels like it's working against you, what's actually happening? Mental health problems affect one in four people annually, yet remain shrouded in stigma and misconception. Unlike physical ailments, which have been recognized for millennia, mental health issues were historically explained through spiritual frameworks rather than medical ones. This legacy contributes to modern stigma, despite our growing integration of concepts like "mindfulness" into everyday language. The comparison between mental and physical health proves particularly illuminating. Both manifest in countless ways, can result from trauma or develop gradually, range from mild to incapacitating, often respond to treatment, and present symptoms that vary in persistence. Even the uncertainty often attributed to mental health diagnoses exists in physical medicine, where diagnoses frequently evolve as more information emerges. What makes mental health uniquely challenging is its subjective, invisible nature - you can't see depression on an X-ray or measure anxiety with a blood test.

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Finding Meaning in Mental Health

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