I'd like to see a randomized trial where people get a fake diagnostic test, the treatment group are assigned to therapy, but the control group get assigned a "bill-of-health" diagnosis, are told that their difficulties are normal and that according to the test results they are capable of dealing with their difficulties by themselves. The…
I'd like to see a randomized trial where people get a fake diagnostic test, the treatment group are assigned to therapy, but the control group get assigned a "bill-of-health" diagnosis, are told that their difficulties are normal and that according to the test results they are capable of dealing with their difficulties by themselves. Then a time is set where they are expected to report back to a regular doctor what did they do to address their problems. And a second control group is assigned everything in the first control group plus a daily 1-hour nature walk and no phone or screen time after 10pm. Let's see therapy compete with that!
There is an BBC/Discovery docuseries called How Mad Are You that put 10 people in a manor to be diagnosed with disorders by a team of psychiatrists. The kicker was that 5 had prior diagnoses and 5 did not. The team of professionals were to figure out who had been previously labeled and who had not, complete with the correct diagnosis. It's eye opening how wrong they were.
People are too complicated to be accurately put in static boxes.
I'd like to see a randomized trial where people get a fake diagnostic test, the treatment group are assigned to therapy, but the control group get assigned a "bill-of-health" diagnosis, are told that their difficulties are normal and that according to the test results they are capable of dealing with their difficulties by themselves. Then a time is set where they are expected to report back to a regular doctor what did they do to address their problems. And a second control group is assigned everything in the first control group plus a daily 1-hour nature walk and no phone or screen time after 10pm. Let's see therapy compete with that!
There is an BBC/Discovery docuseries called How Mad Are You that put 10 people in a manor to be diagnosed with disorders by a team of psychiatrists. The kicker was that 5 had prior diagnoses and 5 did not. The team of professionals were to figure out who had been previously labeled and who had not, complete with the correct diagnosis. It's eye opening how wrong they were.
People are too complicated to be accurately put in static boxes.