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I've been trained to use the medical model. I've read as much as I can about different (psychological) ways to explain suffering. A lot of these are incorporated within the medical model unlike many think. Medical model isn't just about brain chemistry. It does see the person 1/
as a whole with many different aspects contributing to our experiences. However where I do wonder if medical model fails is containing and explaining a variety of different problems of significant severity. I've often wondered this with patients but also with myself. Somehow 2/
just using the categories of icd like "other mood disorders" doesn't feel good enough. I'm not quite sure how medical model could do better with this. It will leave patients feeling like they are weird/somehow wrong/different/not really ill when in fact the problem is with 3/
the model and it's inability to explain the variety of problems that can arise from the human mind. We all have our individual genetic build, brain structure, attachment, family circumstances and life experiences. Why would our mental health problems look identical? 4/4
