Posted by SLS on May 12, 2009, at 0:26:33
In reply to Re: Antidepressants Hardly Help ?????????, posted by chumbawumba on May 12, 2009, at 0:01:07
> Well of course you ask some follow up questions.
Only the same two - over and over.
> But my point is that the most sophisticated differential diagnosis is probably no better than asking someone how they are doing.
Again, you have very eloquently proved my point. Thanks.
> If you think otherwise you've got a lot more faith in psychiatry than I do.
Perhaps not.
I have more faith in the lengthy psychometric examinations more often employed by psychologists than I do in the primitive 17 question rating scales employed by psychiatric clinical investigators.
> All the falderol of so called modern psychiatric diagnosis is just a bunch of guys who really don't know anything trying to sound like they do.
Thanks again.
> Again I go back to my statement: All phenomenon of mind have a bological concomitant, therefore all depression is biological.
As I have so accurately said before, "The brain determines the mind as the mind sculpts the brain." You are not saying anything new here. However, you still avoid the concept of pathology. Depressed mood is perfectly healthy when it is not a symptom of a biological pathology. It is integral to our experiences in an environment containing psychosocial stresses. It can be both protective and instructive.
> But in the end what if you do manage to cobble together a study with participants that comprise a particular genotype.
I believe you presume more understanding of affective disorders than what currently exists in the field of neuroscience. There are some associations between certain alleles and major depressive disorder (MDD), but we are looking at a multi-gene disorder that is influenced by epigenetic variables. The phenomenology of affective disorders is not as simple as you depict here.
- Scott
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