[Youden]

Patients generally can't be relied upon to be objective. There may be exceptions but patients will often say they don't have symptoms that they do and that they do have symptoms that they don't.

Speaking as a patient myself.

I wish there was a way I could get an objective test that spits out exactly what's wrong with me and which treatments are most effective. I've been through several psychiatrists and treatments and am yet to find something effective.

I'm glad research like this is being done.

[Spod_Gaju]

> Patients generally can't be relied upon to be objective.

Neither can doctors, or researchers. They obviously see something wrong with you, as they did with me, so do we worry about their objectivity? No. Because bias and stigma.

And if you are looking for answers, like I have been for 20 year, you might want to look at the role the purine pathway plays in mood disorders. Here is an article I wrote about it.

https://christianbonanno.substack.com/p/what-caused-my-menta...

Best of luck because I objectively know the crap you are dealing with.

[the_sleaze_]

It's always been interesting to me that psychiatrists and psychologists just have to sort of trust the story they're being told. Recently CVS and other pharmacies have started denying prescriptions from some telehealth based psychiatrists because they believe they're over-prescribing amphetamines. How do they know?

This article also makes me think of the neurologist that unknowingly analyzed his own brain scan only to discover he was a psychopath.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscien...

[Spod_Gaju]

Am I "telling a story" when I am walking down the street taking pictures of people because I think they are working for the government and spying on me?

The doctors "objectively" thought I was on drugs.

And those tele-health centers are being shutdown because they do no legitimate screening and are pill farms.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4723163-cdc-disruption...

So I feel you are confusing mental health and mental illness and confusing compassion with a profit making operation.