Posted by Fred Potter on April 9, 2001, at 18:15:26
Thanks everyone for your help (and Mila)
JigSaw Puzzle – Mine was a feeble example, but I think it’s important to explain, by image or analogy, how it feels to be suffering from clinical anxiety and/or depression.
The Beck Inventory and Hamilton Scale “ask” questions where the adjective is supplied and you’re supposed to simply concur or disagree.
Example:
“Do you feel sad?”
“Yes . . but . .”
“Right next question:”
That “Yes . . but . .” is the herald of a potential wealth of information on how we feel.It’s like “Yes . . but SAD doesn’t begin to describe the pain. Yes – pain. This is why I think it’s important to describe here, and to the health professional, by analogy etc, how one feels. And make them listen. My jigSaw puzzle was a small attempt.
I don’t believe multiple choice questions are suitable for diagnosing mental disorders. I think that unless we stand up and say their diagnostic strategies are antediluvian, the doctors will continue to chop off our legs to fit the Procrustean bed. That is, force the data into an inappropriate model. The model of the moment of course.
Why don’t we band together and collect a set of vivid descriptions of how we, the depressed and anxious, feel? If you have any delicious descriptions I would love to hear from you
If you have been, thanks for reading this.
Fred
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