Let’s stop drugging kids
Reference for the quotes: Let’s stop drugging kids
“This year, the Food and Drug Administration has mandated a black-box label on antidepressants warning of the potential for increased suicidal thoughts and behavior with children and adolescents.”
Aren’t antidepressants supposed to improve your mood? Does this mean that these medications are making people happy but violent? Can someone please solve this paradox?
“Not surprisingly, psychiatrists have never developed any physical test to detect depression or any mental illness, and all diagnosis is done based solely on symptoms. In other words, antidepressants and all other psychiatric medications are not in fact being prescribed to treat bona fide diseases.”
Response: There is No Spoon and there is No Usability? When does usability testing get at behavior (symptoms) and when does it get at bona fide issues? How do we know? More importantly, does this question matter at all if we are able to help users and improve ROI?