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What’s special about the last two weeks? Or is this someone trying out the poll creation feature on HN?
by yalogin 6y ago
What’s special about the last two weeks? Or is this someone trying out the poll creation feature on HN?
- colordrops 6y agoElection? News that covid can cause neurological deficits in 20% of infected + increased rates of infection?
- prionassembly 6y agoSelection bias.
- ravenstine 6y agoThat statistic, though I'm still skeptical of it, doesn't really surprise me that much. At least 20% of the people I know are very neurotic, and I could picture them traumatizing themselves over the possibility that they might die from COVID. I know several people who are deathly afraid of the disease, and a few whom are hypochondriacs to begin with and haven't left their homes in the last 8 months. I would bet good money that, if they became infected, they would give themselves permanent mental scars over it.
- penagwin 6y agoThis is actually a pretty standard question by psychiatrists. It's because the DSM-V criteria for Major Depressive Disorder is "Depressed most of the day, nearly every day..." - and it's one of several other features you have to match within a 2 week period to match it. It's a fancy way of saying "The unusual depressive episode (which can be normal) has lasted at least two weeks (not as normal)". How that exact number was determined I'm not sure (though it was the APA), but that's the standard everyone follows. EDIT: I believe a variation of this question is standard as part of the PHQ-9 which is a screening/benchmark quick self-assessment for depression.
- adventured 6y agoThe US elections were in the last two weeks, the pandemic continued to get worse in Europe and the US, and Pfizer / BioNTech's vaccine news came out in the last two weeks. Maybe the parent was considering the potentially depressive nature of facing lockdowns again.
- randyrand 6y agoDaylight savings