Metus comments on Methods for treating depression - Less Wrong

17 Post author: JonahSinick 17 February 2014 07:02PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 17 February 2014 04:23:56AM 3 points [-]

but this may reflect insufficient commitment on the part of patients who were assigned to use self-help CBT materials.

So? If I'm trying to get over depression, I just want to know if that method works. Not if failure can somehow be attributed to me.

Comment author: Metus 17 February 2014 04:58:52AM 4 points [-]

This is not exactly true. If it is difficult to motivate yourself to do something, this is a massive problem of the intervention as motivation is exactly the thing depressed people lack.