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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by Dumblydorr on Sunday January 09, 2022 @08:48AM (#29863148)
Are you a mental health professional? Seems you're overconfident that therapy and drugs aren't the solution to mental health problems, given those are the two main treatments used by doctors who are actually experts on the matter.
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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by kar5pt on Sunday January 09, 2022 @06:59PM (#29868818)
This is circular reasoning. "Only mental health professionals can have an opinion on the matter because mental health professionals say so, and the opinion of mental health professionals is authoritative because it's a mental health issue". Why can't we disagree that it's solely a mental health matter?
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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by math_denial on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:24AM (#29864009)
>Seems you're overconfident that therapy and drugs aren't the solution to mental health problems

And seems like mental health professionals are overconfident that their methods work. And the evidence that they do is weak, especially for the talk therapy.

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