@DrMcFillin I would love to connect with you to discuss biblical phenomenology, an alternative dualistic approach, and send you some of my books.
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DanielBerger
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DanielBerger
@drbergerdr
Christian, husband, father, author, pastor, speaker, counselor, biblical phenomenologist who understands mental struggles framed by neoKraepelinians as disorder
New York, USA Katılım Şubat 2016
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Why does the mental health industrial complex fail to acknowledge the soul? God? Reduce the human experience to brain functioning? Because it was systematically brainwashed out of us.
The mass poisoning of a culture isn't just pharmaceuticals and pesticides. It's ideas.
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Reposting for my own future research
Adam Urato, MD@AdamUrato1
There is general scientific agreement that in utero SSRI exposure impacts fetal brain development. Common sense, basic science, and animal & human studies all show this. Twelve (yes 12) consecutive human MRI studies support this. The studies are listed below: #1 Zanni, G, et al (2025). Perinatal SSRI exposure impacts innate fear circuit activation and behavior in mice and humans. Nature Communications, 16(1), 4002. doi.org/10.1038/s41467… #2 Koc, D., et al (2023). Prenatal antidepressant exposure and offspring brain morphologic trajectory. JAMA Psychiatry, 80(12), 1208–1217. doi.org/10.1001/jamaps… #3 Moreau, A. L., et al (2023). Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 3(2), 243–254. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsg… #4 Campbell, K. S. J., et al (2021a). Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(6), e22125. doi.org/10.1002/dev.22… #5 Salzwedel, A., et al (2020). Functional dissection of prenatal drug effects on baby brain and behavioral development. Human Brain Mapping, 41(15), 4123–4135. doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25… #6 Rotem-Kohavi, N., et al (2019a). Hub distribution of the brain functional networks of newborns prenatally exposed to maternal depression and SSRI antidepressants. Depression and Anxiety, 36(8), 753–765. doi.org/10.1002/da.229… #7 Rotem-Kohavi, N., et al (2019b). Alterations in resting-state networks following in utero selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor exposure in the neonatal brain. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4(1), 39–49. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc… #8 Lugo-Candelas, C., et al (2018). Associations between brain structure and connectivity in infants and exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors during pregnancy. JAMA Pediatrics, 172(6), 525–533. doi.org/10.1001/jamape… #9 Podrebarac, S. K., et al (2017). Antenatal exposure to antidepressants is associated with altered brain development in very preterm-born neonates. Neuroscience, 342, 252–262. doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… #10 Jha, S. C., et al (2016). Antenatal depression, treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and neonatal brain structure: A propensity-matched cohort study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 253, 43–53. doi.org/10.1016/j.pscy… #11 Salzwedel, A. P., et al (2016). Thalamocortical functional connectivity and behavioral disruptions in neonates with prenatal cocaine exposure. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 56, 16–25. doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.… #12 Knickmeyer, R. C., et al (2014). Rate of Chiari I malformation in children of mothers with depression with and without prenatal SSRI exposure. Neuropsychopharmacology, 39(11), 2611–2621. doi.org/10.1038/npp.20…
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A little humor goes a long way... someone sent this to me this evening. It did make me smile.
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@janellison @ompsychiatrist @TheBJPsych Jan, did he by chance have the MTHFR polymorphism? the C667t variant? I am seeing may people falsely diagnosed as bipolar and schizophrenia that have a valid genetic metabolic mutation. We also see complete remission, yet MTHFR is recast as a "risk factor."
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My son was ill for 5 years with bipolar I. We did not experience "clinical mastery." We experienced a field in need of a reboot. So we have ignited the field of metabolic psychiatry to meet the challenge. He is fully in remission with metabolic strategies after 5 years of illness using your "clinical mastery" model. metabolicmind.org for our family's story and our foundation that amplifes the science, clinical wisdom and personal stories from the field of #metabolicpsychiatry
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Psychiatry doesn’t hide behind scans. We diagnose schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression through listening, insight and judgment; without help of biomarkers or imaging. That’s not a weakness. That’s clinical mastery.
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I thought this was a fake account to mock psychiatry. No, it’s a real psychiatrist. Unbelievable!
Om Prakash, MD@ompsychiatrist
Psychiatry doesn’t hide behind scans. We diagnose schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression through listening, insight and judgment; without help of biomarkers or imaging. That’s not a weakness. That’s clinical mastery.
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Science is defined as THE STUDY OF NATURE--not the development of technology. What do we know about the nature of psychiatric physiology? Do we know how a thought is generated? Do we know how memory is stored? Do we know how feelings are generated? What constitutes the mind? And regarding REAL diseases--what is the actual pathophysiological cause of schizophrenia, or bipolar I disorder?
Do you not think that the DSM is pseudoscientific? Diagnoses concocted by OUR TRADE ASSOCIATION--with input from the pharmacological industry and other financial interests--are not scientific. Our adoption of the DSM is an act of consensual faith--and Ibn al Haytham, who INVENTED the scientific method, stated:
The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all he reads, and to attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into prejudice or leniency.
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To avoid DSM reification/stigma:
No patient "has schizophrenia" or "is schizophrenic"- lazy/misleading/reductionistic terms
Proper usage: Patient "meets criteria for schizophrenia"
Why?
Mental disorders are constructs- not diseases
People are so much more than their disorder
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@omri12 Sorry, my immaturity caused me to get hung up on “6’ 7.””
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On February 6-7, I will be teaching on "Conquering Anxiety" at the Rocky Bayou Baptist Church men's retreat. Should be a fun weekend. Those interested can sign up here onrealm.org/rbbc/PublicReg…
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@sevier_nick @imputationist I prefer mental wholeness, which is now progressive and one day will be complete! But yes, the soul’s restoration to wholeness can only come through Christ and in His presence.
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@PaulMinotMD I hope my copy arrives by Friday. I’m glad it’s finally done.
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I’m excited for Dr Minot’s book to be out. While he holds to the Bayesian theory of inference and I believe in dualism, he is honest about his own 40 years of clinical experience and the need for change. Pick up a copy.
Paul Minot, MD@PaulMinotMD
It's funny how very LOOOOONG each day was before my book was published by Amazon on 11/28...while the 11 days since have flown by. I spent much of that time goofing off instead of promoting. Now I'm reorganizing my study, to create a more quiet environment for production of the audiobook. Which will definitely take some time. In the meantime, I'll be here to tell you specific reasons why you should read (or hear) my book: Reason #1 You should read my book if you believe that modern psychiatry conforms at all to the intellectual demands of the scientific method. It doesn't. a.co/d/2LxgcVX
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DanielBerger retweetledi
It's funny how very LOOOOONG each day was before my book was published by Amazon on 11/28...while the 11 days since have flown by. I spent much of that time goofing off instead of promoting. Now I'm reorganizing my study, to create a more quiet environment for production of the audiobook. Which will definitely take some time.
In the meantime, I'll be here to tell you specific reasons why you should read (or hear) my book:
Reason #1
You should read my book if you believe that modern psychiatry conforms at all to the intellectual demands of the scientific method. It doesn't.
a.co/d/2LxgcVX
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@StatlerMatthew This is very true. I cherish all the prayers I can get at all times.
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My new book, Teaching a Child to Pay Attention: Proverbs 4:20-27 (2nd edition) is now available in print, digital, and or audible versions. a.co/d/15lEXkZ
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Some “biblical” counselors have gone off the rails. When you give answers to questions that are not scriptural or at least biblically based, your counseling is not biblical. When you think dualism is your biblical basis for supporting psychiatric theory, you show ignorance.
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I don’t think we should give up on validity. I think we should be clear-eyed about what kind of assumptions guide our pursuit of validity. Once we give up the assumption that there are discrete disease entities (and the assumption is quite untenable given everything we know), it becomes obvious that simply focusing on Robins-Guze validators gives us no optimal solution and there are many competing and meaningful ways in which we can talk about the reality of our constructs.
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@jasonkovacs Psalm 103. He does not deal with us according to our sins. Instead, he seeks to remove our sins as far as the east is from the west. Oh that Christians would do the same toward family who are also in Christ’s Hesed love.
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How does God feel toward His children when they sin?
1. His posture toward them does not change.
2. He feels fatherly compassion, not disgust.
3. He is grieved because sin wounds His beloved, not because His patience is drained.
4. He moves toward sinners, not away.
5. He disciplines, but never to destroy, only to restore.
6. His love remains as full on your worst day as on your best.
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Tomorrow, Dr. Daniel Berger II will be sharing one of the most important texts in Scripture on the sufficiency of Christ and His Word for all of human nature. Join us!
BiblicalCounselorsSociety.com
#biblicalcounseling @drbergerdr
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@conservmillen @LauraRbnsn It is likely mostly bots and fake accounts that are attacking rather than actual people with souls and any ounce of integrity. Sadly, it is the day and age that we live in.
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You’re not quite right on this. The online clamor you’re seeing was NOT represented at the TPUSA event. In fact, the speech got a standing ovation, and the men in the room cheered the point about the damage of porn. You’re seeing a very niche (and, yes, annoying) subset of evangelicalism that is not representative of larger conservative Christianity. Young men lined up after my speech to ask my perspective on various issues. The unhinged X chatter doesn’t match the in-person response.
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So, my read on the Allie Beth Stuckey TPSUSA thing, if anyone saw her getting chewed out.
I think this is where the evangelical movement trying to get men in the door at all costs has gotten us. The new ideal of the evangelical man is a little boy.
The problem with audience
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