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What is the control? I had 4 friends tell me about their mental health collapsing since the April lockdowns. 2 have started taking lots of drugs. Heck before
by creativityEng 6y ago
What is the control?
I had 4 friends tell me about their mental health collapsing since the April lockdowns. 2 have started taking lots of drugs.
Heck before I started this new job, I might be technically depressed. I had never felt like that before.
- shadowgovt 6y agoExactly. I'll have to read the study to find out, but three axes I'm immediately curious about: 1) Are we seeing a side-effect of bothering to look for mental illness in a generally-underdiagnosed population? Maybe most people have a bit, and scrutinizing people that ended up in the hospital is finding things that most mental health research participants aren't screened for. 2) I don't have a mechanism in mind, but it's always important to filter for correlation without causation, or even for reverse-causation; is there something about predisposition for mental illness that makes one more susceptible to COVID? 3) COVID hits an elderly population harder, and age is already correlated with mental illness. How did they control for age?