Re:The Depression Thing
by DanBC on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:05AM
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> The medical community calls what you're doing "terminal uniqueness"
No, the medical community calls it "evidence based medicine".
I've posted links to well run meta analysis by an organisation widely regarded as providing the gold standard for medical evidence.
other people are posting "it worked for me" - exactly what we hear from people who try crystal healing or homeopathy.
> Sleep, eat well, keep active. Nothing about that advice is dangerous.
Depression is a potentially fatal illness. If people are not getting evidence based treatment because they're following advice from people who don't know what they're talking about, those people may become more ill, and they may find it harder to seek help, and they may then die by suicide. suicide is a leading cause of death in men under 49, and in all people between ages 20-35 (in UK, and probably in us if they used same definition).
> (I know what you're going to say next, "but chemicals in the brain!"
A lazy assumption, I've never said "brain chemicals". I've always said "bio-psycho-social".
No, the medical community calls it "evidence based medicine".
I've posted links to well run meta analysis by an organisation widely regarded as providing the gold standard for medical evidence.
other people are posting "it worked for me" - exactly what we hear from people who try crystal healing or homeopathy.
> Sleep, eat well, keep active. Nothing about that advice is dangerous.
Depression is a potentially fatal illness. If people are not getting evidence based treatment because they're following advice from people who don't know what they're talking about, those people may become more ill, and they may find it harder to seek help, and they may then die by suicide. suicide is a leading cause of death in men under 49, and in all people between ages 20-35 (in UK, and probably in us if they used same definition).
> (I know what you're going to say next, "but chemicals in the brain!"
A lazy assumption, I've never said "brain chemicals". I've always said "bio-psycho-social".