What is the biggest challenge you are facing at the moment?
Probably the same for most news-reading adults across the world over the past few years: managing my emotions in the face of environmental degradation and its biggest enabler, unregulated capitalism, mixed with the requirement to build a steady and hopeful outlook for my children. I’m not always good at that but I’m trying.
What is the biggest opportunity?
I think there is a perfect storm of factors that is leading me, as a nurse, to the opportunity to play a part in the demise of reductionist biomedical approaches to distress in society.
When a sixth of people in the city where I work are diagnosed with depression and are taking tablets then I think it is growing abundantly clear that the medicalisation of distress has been hugely successful business but largely ineffective at changing the happiness of society.
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