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You needed to spend a week in a mental health facility observing patients with clinical / severe depression. Your model would fall apart pretty quickly. The mos
by Lordarminius 9y ago
You needed to spend a week in a mental health facility observing patients with clinical / severe depression. Your model would fall apart pretty quickly. The most charitable thing I can say about your theory of depression is that in part it describes a small subset of depressed patients. Your modelling of mania is far from reality.
- psyc 9y agoI've spent a combined total of 20 weeks being an in-patient with severe depression, and interacting with others. What specifically do you believe the parent would observe, that would cause them to rethink their viewpoint?
- itronitron 9y agoIt would surprise me to hear that the majority of depressed people are in mental health facilities, therefore it seems more likely that your perspective is based on exposure to a small subset of depressed people.