Mental Health · Psychiatry · Root Causes
🎙 Guests: Colin Ross, MD & Glenn Macko · 📅 Aired October 30, 2026 · ⏱ 55 min episode
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Introduction
We have talked often on how allopathic medicine seeks to treat the symptoms and not the underlying problem. Is this the same for psychiatry?
1.7 billion people worldwide suffer from mental illness. Only 44% of adults with mental health issues receive treatment, and less than 20% of children needing mental health treatment receive it. One in six people will be affected by a depressive disorder in their lifetime: at any time, 17% in US. Other than pain from arthritis, depression is the most disabling.
At root of all psychiatric conditions are contributions from the toxic load, infectious burden, and inflammation. As part of the allopathic model, conventional psychiatry focuses on managing symptoms rather than identifying and addressing the root causes of depression. The allopathic approach focuses on medications.
- The US has 4% of the world population, yet we take 40% of the pharmaceuticals in the world
- Sixty million in US take antipsychotic medications (some for sleep, some to supplement treatment for other disorders)
- One in six adults in US is on a psychiatric drug
- Among women in their fifties and sixties, the number is closer to one in four.
- Children as young as four are prescribed antipsychotics originally developed for adults with schizophrenia
Are we doing this right?
Guests
Colin Ross, MD
Dr. Colin Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author and lecturer in the field of dissociation and trauma-related disorders. He is the founder and President of The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. He is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He has appeared in a number of television documentaries and has published essays, aphorisms, poetry, short stories, and screenplays.
Dr. Ross’s book, The Trauma Model: A Solution To the Problem of Comorbidity in Psychiatry, was first published in 2000, with a second edition appearing in 2007. Other books of his include: Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma, Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity (2009), The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists (2006), Moon Shadows: Stories of Trauma & Recovery (2007), Structural Dissociation: A Proposed Modification of the Theory (2013), The Trump Card: A Psychiatrist Analyzes Reactions to Donald Trump (2017), Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (2018), Be A Teammate With Yourself (2019), The Genetics of Schizophrenia (2020), and Opus 5 In B Flat And Other Poems (2020).
Glenn Macko
After a career building communications software for major international companies in mission critical manufacturing and military protection systems, Glenn has focused his efforts on advocating for health approaches that save lives. He hosts a podcast where he bravely delves into controversial topics.
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