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Agreed. Many psychiatric disorders are a function of personal experience and of collective experience of the person. Whilst I'd welcome more objective and quant
by neuroma 5y ago
Agreed.
Many psychiatric disorders are a function of personal experience and of collective experience of the person.
Whilst I'd welcome more objective and quantitative assessment tools, it feels like blood tests won't ever tell you if a person is depressed. They might suggest a level of inflammation or endocrine stress, and that's a great help, but not equivalent.
- bawolff 5y ago> Many psychiatric disorders are a function of personal experience and of collective experience of the person [Citation needed] That seems like a bold claim relative to our current level of understanding.
- Pyramus 5y agoWhy do you think that? If there is one thing that we do know it is that depression, say, is multifactorial and complex. In very few cases are the reasons only biological (but they do exist). See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
- podgaj 5y agoI get so tired of this dichotomy between nature and nurture. It’s both. Some people have more issues on the nurture side other people have more issues on the nature side. What’s needed is to look at this more holistically. When I realized this I didn’t know how much my environment was affecting my bipolar disorder. Buy matching my nature in my nurture I’ve come along way and getting off of almost all my medications.
- bawolff 5y agoI agree with what you're saying but not the what neuroma is saying (or at least i don't think we know enough to make the claim). I don't think you are saying the same thing.