in which I find myself yelling at the computer screen

[kaberett]

fuck you, BBC, fuck you

you know, for most of this article, you do a pretty good job of describing the ways in which prescribing self-help books on the NHS might be useful for people with mild to moderate depression

... IT'S A PITY YOU LEAVE OUT THE MILD TO MODERATE, ISN'T IT

AND INSTEAD

END

ON A FUCKING SELF-CONGRATULATORY BULLSHIT MESSAGE OF "PEOPLE SHOULD BOOTSTRAP THEMSELVES OUT OF DEPRESSION"

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

I was diagnosed with severe depression when I was 21. I had been in and out of counselling since I was 15. And you think it's appropriate to suggest I need to "make an effort" to get better?

Don't you fucking dare tell me I should have been able to ~think myself happy~. Don't. You. Dare.

Comments

[bjh21.me.uk]

My statistics is basically non-existent, but I don't think the study made any serious attempt to filter by severity of depression. In particular, the mean baseline BDI-II score of subjects seems to have been about 29, which the authors claim is the moderate/severe boundary. Is there something in the depths of the results that indicates that only the mildy and moderately depressed subjects showed any improvement?

On the other hand, that last quotation is just terrible. I mean, even I can see that and (as can be seen above) I'm about as insensitive as it's possible to be.