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It's literally the title of this post.

by aaronbasssett 6y ago

orange8 6y ago
He built an app to fix HIS depression. The apps website does not make any such claims.
- aaronbasssett 6y ago
  > It’s an online app that can help you tap into your hidden emotions and release them so they no longer influence your behaviour or cause depressive symptoms. Did you read the article at all? Here is a quote where they state the app can stop the cause of your depressive symptoms. That clear cut enough for you? Or do you still want to be wilfully obtuse?
  - tway214 6y ago
    Do you also ask anyone who writes a dieting cookbook for their medical degree? The author does not state anywhere that the user should stop taking their medication or stop getting treated by professionals.
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    - aaronbasssett 6y ago
      > The doc recommended I up the dosage, but I could see this would eventually lead me to a straitjacket. That sounds like they're making a pretty strong argument for stopping taking the Doctor recommended medication.
  - thomquaid 6y ago
    You're being obtuse, not him. /A cause/ of depressive symptoms is not the same as /the cause/ of (your) depressive symptoms.
  - orange8 6y ago
    Nobody owns the intellectual property to "the cure of depression". Are you suggesting that the only way to cure depression is by paying a medical professional using only scientifically backed and proven methods and procedures some money? Are you in the industry yourself? A hobby can cure depression. A better diet can cure depression. More exercise can cure depression. Finding purpose can cure depression. Painting can cure depression. Dancing can cure depression. The heavens forbid someone start a dancing class that claims to help release negative emotions without a medical degree and scientific research to back it up.
    - aaronbasssett 6y ago
      And if a hobbyist, dietician, personal trainer, life coach, painter, or choreographer was telling people to stop taking their perscribed medications before they end up in a straight-jacket and instead just diet/exercise/paint/dance/etc then yes I think those people would be just as culpable for any harm they caused. There's a difference between "these things might help the symptoms of depression" and "Doctor telling you to take life saving medication, what if it makes you crazy? I have no evidence that it will, but I feel like it might. You should use this app instead"
      - orange8 6y ago
        Lol! Looks like you've recruited your twitter army to bring in the down-votes. Don't care. I think it is immoral to try and gatekeep something as essential and personal as our emotions for the sake of "Psychologist/Psychiatrist who study CBT" for five years. And learn to tell the difference between 1) someone sharing his personal story about depression on a blog 2) Someone creating an app inspired by that experience. And accusing him of "encouraging people to stop taking their medication" is borderline character assassination. Where did you even get that?
    - acituan 6y ago
      > A hobby can cure depression. A better diet can cure depression. More exercise can cure depression We are not talking about a mere feeling down here. Depression is a clinically defined term with specific criteria, and no nothing you can fix with a new hobby is clinical depression, and yes if you claim to be fixing it with any tool which you make available to public you need to be a licensed professional. > Nobody owns the intellectual property to "the cure of depression". Luckily intellectual property protection is not the only protection we have around medical interventions. No one has the intellectual property to tonsillectomy either, and you're free to try operating on your own, but you will get into trouble real fast if you advertised you doing it to public as a fix to some ailment.
rdiddly 6y ago
It says fix "my" depression, neatly sidestepping any question of what other people should do and who's responsible for it.
- vector_spaces 6y ago
  Unfortunately it's not quite so neat. In the United States, the FDA considers personal anecdata forbidden when it comes to the sale and marketing of dietary supplements -- for example, statements such as "This product cured/helped/relieved/improved/fixed my/my aunt's/someone's diabetes" (on a product label, website, or even verbally by a salesperson or retail clerk in a store) are strictly forbidden as they may be construed to be medical advice This is covered by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. I don't know if DSHEA covers websites/apps/digital products -- probably not -- but I would be very surprised if there wasn't similar legislation covering websites, apps, and digital products Note that DSHEA does prescribe language for safely discussing the effects of non-drug therapies. It's called structure-function language -- OP should definitely read up on it (better: talk to a lawyer versed in these matters, and note that I am not a lawyer, none of the above is intended as legal advice)
  - zoozla 6y ago
    Thanks for this, I'll definitely look into it.

It's literally the title of this post.

orange8 6y ago

He built an app to fix HIS depression. The apps website does not make any such claims.

aaronbasssett 6y ago
> It’s an online app that can help you tap into your hidden emotions and release them so they no longer influence your behaviour or cause depressive symptoms. Did you read the article at all? Here is a quote where they state the app can stop the cause of your depressive symptoms. That clear cut enough for you? Or do you still want to be wilfully obtuse?
- tway214 6y ago
  Do you also ask anyone who writes a dieting cookbook for their medical degree? The author does not state anywhere that the user should stop taking their medication or stop getting treated by professionals.
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - aaronbasssett 6y ago
    > The doc recommended I up the dosage, but I could see this would eventually lead me to a straitjacket. That sounds like they're making a pretty strong argument for stopping taking the Doctor recommended medication.
- thomquaid 6y ago
  You're being obtuse, not him. /A cause/ of depressive symptoms is not the same as /the cause/ of (your) depressive symptoms.
- orange8 6y ago
  Nobody owns the intellectual property to "the cure of depression". Are you suggesting that the only way to cure depression is by paying a medical professional using only scientifically backed and proven methods and procedures some money? Are you in the industry yourself? A hobby can cure depression. A better diet can cure depression. More exercise can cure depression. Finding purpose can cure depression. Painting can cure depression. Dancing can cure depression. The heavens forbid someone start a dancing class that claims to help release negative emotions without a medical degree and scientific research to back it up.
  - aaronbasssett 6y ago
    And if a hobbyist, dietician, personal trainer, life coach, painter, or choreographer was telling people to stop taking their perscribed medications before they end up in a straight-jacket and instead just diet/exercise/paint/dance/etc then yes I think those people would be just as culpable for any harm they caused. There's a difference between "these things might help the symptoms of depression" and "Doctor telling you to take life saving medication, what if it makes you crazy? I have no evidence that it will, but I feel like it might. You should use this app instead"
    - orange8 6y ago
      Lol! Looks like you've recruited your twitter army to bring in the down-votes. Don't care. I think it is immoral to try and gatekeep something as essential and personal as our emotions for the sake of "Psychologist/Psychiatrist who study CBT" for five years. And learn to tell the difference between 1) someone sharing his personal story about depression on a blog 2) Someone creating an app inspired by that experience. And accusing him of "encouraging people to stop taking their medication" is borderline character assassination. Where did you even get that?
  - acituan 6y ago
    > A hobby can cure depression. A better diet can cure depression. More exercise can cure depression We are not talking about a mere feeling down here. Depression is a clinically defined term with specific criteria, and no nothing you can fix with a new hobby is clinical depression, and yes if you claim to be fixing it with any tool which you make available to public you need to be a licensed professional. > Nobody owns the intellectual property to "the cure of depression". Luckily intellectual property protection is not the only protection we have around medical interventions. No one has the intellectual property to tonsillectomy either, and you're free to try operating on your own, but you will get into trouble real fast if you advertised you doing it to public as a fix to some ailment.

rdiddly 6y ago

It says fix "my" depression, neatly sidestepping any question of what other people should do and who's responsible for it.

vector_spaces 6y ago
Unfortunately it's not quite so neat. In the United States, the FDA considers personal anecdata forbidden when it comes to the sale and marketing of dietary supplements -- for example, statements such as "This product cured/helped/relieved/improved/fixed my/my aunt's/someone's diabetes" (on a product label, website, or even verbally by a salesperson or retail clerk in a store) are strictly forbidden as they may be construed to be medical advice This is covered by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. I don't know if DSHEA covers websites/apps/digital products -- probably not -- but I would be very surprised if there wasn't similar legislation covering websites, apps, and digital products Note that DSHEA does prescribe language for safely discussing the effects of non-drug therapies. It's called structure-function language -- OP should definitely read up on it (better: talk to a lawyer versed in these matters, and note that I am not a lawyer, none of the above is intended as legal advice)
- zoozla 6y ago
  Thanks for this, I'll definitely look into it.