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Re:Veterans find relief from nightmares with NightWare and A... by skyyler on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:50PM (#33524786)
This could be interesting reading for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/

I'm still not sure what is pseudoscientific about "People with psychological problems can learn ways of coping with the problems, thereby relieving their symptoms."

That's what CBT is...

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Re:Veterans find relief from nightmares with NightWare and A... by n0tth3dro1ds on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:14PM (#33525056)
The assessment of their psychological “problem” (often too broad to even be considered a condition) is pseudoscientific: a qualitative evaluation.

The assessment of the success of CBT is also pseudoscientific: a qualitative evaluation.

The result is a field with 40% replicability of journal results.

And you share a meta analysis of these pseudo-scientific “studies”. Add another layer of abstraction to the nonsense.

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Re:Veterans find relief from nightmares with NightWare and A... by skyyler on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:16PM (#33525079)
Ahhhhh, all psychology is pseudoscience to you. That makes sense now.

That's completely fair, and I don't want to interact with that at all.

Have a nice day!

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Re:Veterans find relief from nightmares with NightWare and A... by ketzo on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:35PM (#33526637)
Why do you completely discount qualitative evaluations?

If I say I feel shitty all the time, and then I go to therapy, and I say that I feel less shitty all the time... why is that invalid data?

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