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A physicist’s experience of the mental-health system

09 Feb 2022
Taken from the February 2022 issue of Physics World.

Having suffered from depression and other mental-health problems for more than 10 years, Alexander Mendelsohn (not the author’s real name) wonders why the mental-health system lacks the quantitative rigour that physics benefits from

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Warning: this article contains discussions of mental illness, depression and suicide. This article i

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