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In order to be treated via medication there certainly must be something physically wrong with the patient. I don't believe that the parent is referring to all c
by Locke1689 15y ago
In order to be treated via medication there certainly must be something physically wrong with the patient. I don't believe that the parent is referring to all categories of mental illness, only ones which can be treated by medication. If you're talking to a physician and there's nothing physically wrong with you, you're in the wrong room.
- DanBC 15y agoSee, for example, the serotonin hypothesis, and the fact that good quality evidence shows that for mild to moderate depression CBT is more effective than SSRIs. I was careful to put a bunch of qualifiers in my post, but i'm keen to make sure people realise that mental health problems can be very serious even if they're not "physical". This is important because people with chronic fatigue are often sent to see CBT practitioners. Lots of those people feel that they're being trivialised or fobbed off; they say things like "I have a real illness". It's a shame, because CBT is used to reduce pain in cancer patients, and there's reasonable evidence that it's useful in CFS/ME type illnesses.