Posted by wishingstar on October 21, 2006, at 18:57:09
In reply to Are mental disorders real?, posted by capricorn on October 18, 2006, at 17:42:45
I couldnt get the article to load (my internet is terrible here) but I'm going to try again later. This is interesting to me. I am currently (ok, just dropped out) a grad student in a psych research program. I'm interested to see what kind of analyses they ran. 30 students is an INCREDIBLY small sample size to be making any kind of wide-reaching claims about the population in general.. and that's made worse by the fact that theyre all college undergrads (very narrow age range, educational level, ses, etc). But I'll have to read it.. maybe if the results were highly significant (statistically) it can have some reliability, but I'm always a little skeptical on these things.
Aside from that though the results dont necessairly surprise me. To me, it's right in line with the "you're depressed? why dont you just get over it?" line of thinking. I think that in itself can lead some people to not follow through with multi-faceted treatments... I dont know.
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