Taking this still further, psychiatrists Brain C-13 Review attached limpet-like to the military have now implemented a system of screening for depression and PTSD. All soldiers are encouraged to complete a questionnaire when visiting a primary care doctor and, based on their responses, are routinely prescribed drugs - often antidepressants or antipsychotics.
Such questionnaires include the "Patient Health Questionnaire" (PHQ) and, to take one example of how devious this operation is, its questions include: (in the past two weeks, have you experienced) "little interest or pleasure in doing things, trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much, feeling tired or having little energy, poor eating or overeating, feeling bad about yourself, or if you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down, had trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television" to name a few. These are questions to which any of us might at one time or another answer "yes", especially if we are sat in a tent with shells exploding overhead, are exhausted by a tough routine and forced to eat army grub!
It is a fact too that such phenomena can have any one of dozens of causes and depression itself almost always derives from an underlying, undetected physical malady or nutritional deficiency. The checklist, however, arbitrarily requires 5 or more of the behavioral items to warrant a diagnosis and does not look at other factors such as fatigue, poor diet, toxic poisoning and so forth.
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