The lie of numbness: Roger McFillin on psychiatry’s betrayal of emotion
06 September 2025

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

America Out Loud PULSE

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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...