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And if a hobbyist, dietician, personal trainer, life coach, painter, or choreographer was telling people to stop taking their perscribed medications before they

And if a hobbyist, dietician, personal trainer, life coach, painter, or choreographer was telling people to stop taking their perscribed medications before they end up in a straight-jacket and instead just diet/exercise/paint/dance/etc then yes I think those people would be just as culpable for any harm they caused. There's a difference between "these things might help the symptoms of depression" and "Doctor telling you to take life saving medication, what if it makes you crazy? I have no evidence that it will, but I feel like it might. You should use this app instead"

orange8 6y ago
Lol! Looks like you've recruited your twitter army to bring in the down-votes. Don't care. I think it is immoral to try and gatekeep something as essential and personal as our emotions for the sake of "Psychologist/Psychiatrist who study CBT" for five years. And learn to tell the difference between 1) someone sharing his personal story about depression on a blog 2) Someone creating an app inspired by that experience. And accusing him of "encouraging people to stop taking their medication" is borderline character assassination. Where did you even get that?