It’s actually very problematic that depression is pretty much self-diagnosed. It’s also a catchall diagnosis when the doctor doesn’t know wtf is going on. Before anyone is diagnosed with a mental disorder they should be given a goddamn brain scan. The way it goes now you go to the doctor and describe your symptoms and fill out some moronic questionnaire and then get drugs X, Y, and Z. If they think your arm is broken they take a ****ing x-ray. It is as if even the medical community still thinks emotions have non-physiological causes like it’s mysticism instead of brain chemistry. And what’s even more obscene is therapists in general usually know absolutely nothing about neurology. Often they believe that mental illness doesn’t have to be neurological. That’s as stupid as saying if the patient thinks his arm is broken then it’s definitely really broken.
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