Having written favourably elsewhere of New York City's proposed screening for people at risk of depression (see Screening For Depression), I suddenly felt the need for one counterbalancing notion. Why I should state it on a separate site perhaps reflects my current erratic temperament.
The danger faced, if more people are likely to be diagnosed as having a disposition towards depression, is that people with a history of depressive illness can so easily be prescribed anti-depressants for an (indeterminately caused) physical ailment.
As in all things, it is important that a sensible balance be maintained when examining such a psycho-somatically complex organism as homo sapiens. A dis-ease of mind or body automatically transfers its ailment to its complementary part.
If this sounds like gibberish it probably is, if not, you know it makes sense!
- living and frequently struggling with moderate M.E. -
where (bad) health, faith, politics and the joys and troubles of daily life collide.
ME
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