Who’s the comedian who says…”DON’t GET ME STARTED!” Well, you turned my rant switch so here goes. I think this issue is multifactoral. The medical model in this country (USA) has somehow swung away from looking at the patient and hearing what he says to reading the lab reports and taking them as gospel. Unless there have been a large enough number of human studies done that has proven EMPIRACALLY that black is black and white is white, the medical model tends to dismiss all other data as irrelevant or coincidental, at best. Problem #2 -Depression cannot be easily measured or quantified. Almost all the signs and symptoms are subjective and therefore, suspect. Problem #3 -People aren’t depressed; they’re lazy, amotivated, hypochondriacal; malingering, cry-babies. Problem # 4 – GD affects far more men than women and everyone knows that women all go automatically into category #3 by virtue of gender…pre-menstrual…post-menopausal, histrionic, over-dramatic…emotional; and thus, not credible sources of believable information. Thus, I have my doubts that there will ever be a linkage direct enough or irrefutable enough to warrant the attention of most practitioners. It’s just too easy to blow off and attribute to something else. Sermon is over, for whatever it’s worth!
Luci
