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I'm not saying you shouldn't go to one on a personal level. If it helps you or improves your life it doesn't matter if scientific or not, it isn't anyone's busi
by willcipriano 3y ago
I'm not saying you shouldn't go to one on a personal level. If it helps you or improves your life it doesn't matter if scientific or not, it isn't anyone's business. I'm speaking more about it from a population level. I think we could probably come up with ways to more cheaply (read: increase access) to help people with moderate mental illness (that I suspect in some cases may be the brain working correctly and accurately finding it's environment to be unpleasant and lonely).
For young men without strong male influences in particular I think a kind person in some sort of big brother program is probably worth a team of psychological professionals in many cases.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoSounds like somebody should design a study and test it.
- willcipriano 3y agoI don't think you can blind it properly. Patients will probably report the care as more effective from therapists due to social conditioning and placebo effect. I recall a study where doctors in white coats were rated more effective than without by patients.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoI definitely agree that we can do more to help moderate mental illness, and that a lot of things can be more communal than clinical. That's all great. But we need to recognise that actually, there are people who can't be helped this way, who need more than just any talk at all, and that clinical psychologists have a lot of useful expertise on how to help these people, that can't simply be written off as unscientific or just a friendly conversation. There's a lot more to it than that.