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Ep 207: Trauma Filmmaker: Your Anxiety Diagnosis Is Just A Checklist, And They're PROFITING From It!

Ep 207: Trauma Filmmaker: Your Anxiety Diagnosis Is Just A Checklist, And They're PROFITING From It!

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In his twenties, Ton Mazzone couldn’t get through a conversation without his mind going blank and his heart racing. He bought every confidence book he could find. Nothing worked. The only time he felt like himself was after a drink. So he did what so many of us do. He self-medicated, until that stopped working too.When he finally went to his doctor and asked for help, the appointment went the way so many of these appointments go. His symptoms were clustered into a diagnosis. Anxiety. Depression. Here’s the medication. He told me he left that room feeling even more broken than when he walked in, because the message underneath it was: you’re the problem, and this chemical is going to fix you.Nobody asked what had happened to him.It took Ton five more years to learn the word that changed everything: trauma. Not the big, one-off event he had always pictured, but the relational, developmental kind that stacks up quietly in a childhood that looks happy from the outside. Once he understood that, his whole belief flipped, from “I am broken” to “these are normal responses to abnormal experiences.”I felt that one in my bones, because it is my story too. I lived with anxiety for 30 years. I was told I had generalized anxiety disorder at 30, and with my grandmother’s history of shock treatment and lithium, I assumed it was simply my lot in life. When you get a label like that, you lose your agency. It took two breakdowns and a lot of learning before I understood that my nervous system had done exactly what it was designed to do.Ton turned his awakening into a film. Traumality took him four years, with no funding, no studio and no production company behind him. He reached out to more than a hundred of them and didn’t hear back from a single one. When he started, he didn’t even own a camera. The finished film features people every trauma practitioner I know studies and learns from, including Peter Levine, Deb Dana and Janina Fisher. It has since been screened for more than 100 healthcare professionals inside the very NHS that once handed him a prescription and sent him home.In this episode we go where the film goes, and yes, I got up on my soapbox. We talk about the DSM-5, the book often called the bible of psychiatry. As Ton puts it, mental health is the only field where they don’t scan the organ they’re treating. A diagnosis comes from a checklist of symptoms, and five different doctors can give you five different labels. Ton shares that roughly 60% of the people who wrote the DSM had funding from pharmaceutical companies. (A 2012 study in PLOS Medicine found that 69% of the DSM-5 task force reported ties to the pharmaceutical industry.) In his words: “I wouldn’t want to take the advice of somebody who’s profiting from the very thing that they’re diagnosing me from.”We also talk about why complex PTSD still isn’t in the DSM-5, even though the World Health Organization recognizes it, and how that gap leaves so many people carrying a label that never fit. And we talk about what a trauma-informed world could actually look like, from the belief systems we bring into a room, to Scotland’s trauma-informed experiment, to the way we parent.That last part matters to me more than almost anything. When a parent brings me a struggling child, I will very gently say, I won’t work with your child, but I will work with you. Not because anyone failed, but because so many of us are parenting with a playbook handed down by generations who were simply trying to survive. Our kids aren’t a collection of disorders. They learned brilliant adaptations.If you have ever been told something is wrong with you and quietly wondered whether there was more to the story, this conversation is for you. You are not broken. You adapted.Rent and stream Traumality here: https://traumality.comIf this conversation stirs something about your own patterns, my free HURRT Assessment (Healing Unresolved Roots of Trauma) maps how experiences before 18 may still be shaping you now:Take it here: https://www.flipyourmindset.com/hurrtPrefer to watch? The full video version is on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCAQUNLlaDa262nD-iNvGHgFind Ton and Traumality on social media, where he shares every new screening.In this conversation: social anxiety and self-medicating, the appointment that left him more broken, discovering trauma five years later, why trauma isn’t always one big event, my own 30 years of anxiety, what the DSM-5 actually is, who writes it and who funds them, why complex PTSD isn’t in the DSM, bracing for pushback from psychiatry, the UK psychiatry apology, making a film with no funding, screening for NHS professionals, Scotland’s trauma-informed experiment, labels versus adaptations, and why it is so hard for parents to look at themselves.This conversation is for education and reflection, not medical advice. Please don’t start, stop or change any medication without talking to your doctor.New ...
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