Writing on psychiatry, mental health, and the questions worth asking
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If you have not seen Shrinking on Apple TV, stop reading and go watch it. I'll wait. Back? Good. Now let's talk about what is missing. The show has Jimmy, a therapist who is also quietly falling apart from grief, and decides the best way to handle that is to just say exactly what he thinks to his patients. No filter. Ethically complicated. Extremely entertaining. It has Gaby, warm and funny and somehow giving the best advice while her own life is held together with sarcasm a