The whac-a-mole [1] tendency of psychiatry is revealed by this line from this submission's link: > Assessment and treatment of vitamin D deficiency should be c

The whac-a-mole [1] tendency of psychiatry is revealed by this line from this submission's link: > Assessment and treatment of vitamin D deficiency should be considered in in-patients to protect musculoskeletal health. Further epidemiological and intervention studies are needed to investigate the role of vitamin D in the pathophysiology of mental disorders. [emphasis added] The full context of vitamin D synthesis and conversion is relevant, not just "protect musculoskeletal health". Vitamin D is manufactured in the skin from cholesterol, but has to be activated in the liver & kidneys through "enzymatic conversion" [0]. Cholesterol is manufactured in the liver. If a person's liver is burdened by "stress", malnourishment, etc, it won't have the capacity to produce cholesterol for the skin to turn into vitamin D. Mental disorders are fundamentally related to stress and metabolism. Stress takes many forms; emotional stress is the most important. The whole organism's metabolic processes are relevant when figuring out the cause of "mental" problems. Just the other day I talked with my ~50y.o. Canadian friend. Her brother is dying from complications of drug addiction (opiates and everything else). She said he never had a good relationship with their father, and was devastated when their grandfather was killed right next to him in a farm accident (brother was 16 y.o. at the time)... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole : The term "Whac-a-mole" (or "Whack-a-mole") is used colloquially to denote a repetitious and futile task: each time an adversary is "whacked", it only pops up again somewhere else. In a military context, the term is used to refer to ostensibly inferior opposing troops who keep re- appearing. In a programming/debugging context it refers to the fact that fixing a bug has a certain chance of creating a new bug which itself needs to be fixed. In a web context, it refers to the process of fending off recurring spammers, vandals or miscreants.