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Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us" chats with "Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers about the appearance of anorexia in Hong Kong. Watters discusses how the Chinese form and understanding of anorexia differs from America and how different cultural atmospheres can affect the diagnosis or recognition of certain mental health disorders.

Author and journalist Ethan Watters chats with "Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers about the importance for mental health providers to understand a patient's culture and not try to override that with their beliefs. Watters says it's important to understand how non-scientific narratives might have value, such as how a patient sees themselves in a group.

"Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers chats with Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us," about America's views of mental illness and the resulting effects on the rest of the world. Watters says that many developing nations are actually doing better than the West, and America should consider importing -- not exporting -- other countries' ideas on mental health.

Journalist and author Ethan Watters explains that "the line between normal and pathological has been moved." While he acknowledges that drug companies do play a role in homogenizing ideas of mental illness around the globe, it also happens in other contexts, some of which have good intentions behind them.

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Did you know a person's actual symptoms of mental illness can be different from one culture to another? Ethan Watters, journalist and author of "Crazy Like Us," discusses how pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline sought to "change the Japanese understanding of depression" so that it could fit the drug it was marketing in line with the American model of mental illness.

Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us" discusses how our population has reframed the understanding of difficult life experiences. Because we have "lost older belief systems that once gave meaning and comfort to mental suffering," Watters believes the recovery process -- particularly for soldiers returning from war -- becomes significantly more difficult.

"Mental Health Matters" host Barbara Meyers chats with psychiatric service dog owners Veronica Morris and Linden Gue about what their dogs actually do and how these pets became part of their lives. 

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 Whether the owner chooses to train their dog themselves or use a professional trainer, both methods have potential for success. Learn more about how long it takes to successfully train a service dog and the importance of certification. 

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