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Naming a mental illness can help, but we mustn’t lose sight of the individual experience behind the label
‘It’s really important never to forget about the trees, because therein lies the person.’ Photograph: Tetra Images/Alamy
‘It’s really important never to forget about the trees, because therein lies the person.’ Photograph: Tetra Images/Alamy
Wed 30 Dec 2020 04.00 EST
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Learning to be a psychiatrist means learning the names of a lot of disorders. Without these names, what would we have? A welter of distress, a confusion of symptoms. It would be very hard to say to a colleague, when pressed for time, what was wrong with any particular patient: “Well, his mood is low every morning, he doesn’t eat, his sleep is poor, his wife says he’s lazy and neglecting their child” might only be the start. But if you say, “He has an episode of moderate to severe depression, not responding t
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[Closing Ranger, protecting Kakadu:] new report raises issues about rehabilitation plan
Plans for cleaning up the site of the Ranger uranium mine, which closes in January – and incorporating it into Australia’s largest national park, Kakadu – are being hampered by an unrealistic five-year rehabilitation time frame, uncertainty over funding and fears about a tailings dam leaking toxic contaminants into the surrounding national park.
These are some of the issues raised in a new report, Closing Ranger, protecting Kakadu, released by the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Mineral Policy Institute and the Environment Centre NT.