On the establishment side, hard-liners with a cold, clinical approach to healing and no appreciation for the humanistic, intuitive aspects of helping people in distress, and who are dismissive as my psychiatrist was of any connection between nutrition and mental health, provide ideological bullets for alternative practitioners, who are able to portray themselves as offering a more humane, caring, supportive context for healing.

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Of all the questions sent to me for CNNhealth, I wanted to address yours first, because it breaks my heart, because it points to the devastation that mental illness can cause, and because I've seen similar situations a thousand times in my work as a psychiatrist.

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And my guess is that was true for the psychiatrist and the ice hockey coach.

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