Posted by Larry Hoover on November 19, 2002, at 16:39:21
In reply to one thing about Japan » Larry Hoover, posted by johnj on November 19, 2002, at 16:06:32
> I have lived and worked in Japan for 5 years in the past. Mental health care is atrocious. It is like the 1950's in the US. A male would never be encouraged to seek treatment for depression or anxiety and would most likely self medicate with alcohol. My wife had a friend who had horrible depression after pregnancy and they did absolutely nothing for her, but medicate her to a stupor. Also, the young generation does not eat fish like the older generation. I would liken the statistics of mood orders to be about as accurate as the ssri stats and sexual dysfunction. In other words, not accurate at all. I have always wondered when they say soy is a reason Japanese women have less menopausal problems if it is the soy or the way society does not allow women to complain. Numbers are manipulated so easy.
As you say. For some reason, the authors of the report I was referring to also did the fish v. depression analyis, only excluding data from Japan, and the correlation was still quite robust.
"The data on the annual prevalence of major depression reported by the Ministry of Welfare in Japan included 130 000 individuals, but did not use structured instruments for diagnosis or randomised population-sampling methods. However, exclusion of these Japanese data did not significantly affect the correlation analysis (r=0·77, p<0·03). "
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