Jonathan McRae
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Just thinking about it for four seconds.
The problem with mental health diagnosis.
They are, but they're not necessarily even subjective to me.
But then, of course, there's the act of the observer, right?
If the psychiatrist who's asking a question is a man and it's a big room that the person feels uncomfortable in, or it's a woman that they know very well and have been working with for such a long time and they feel very close to, are they going to have the same answers?
Of course they're not.
Well, I guess there is a danger in saying, well, just because there's variability in how mental health conditions are diagnosed, you know, the whole system is flawed and broken.
We should, you know, throw it out.
Of course.
Yeah, I think, you know, we operate in this way for reasons because...
For many, it's efficacious.
But, you know, the variability of experience, memory, current mood, I would imagine would throw your responses.
Look, Flippant and sort of, you know, this is a skim over something.
I would love to hear from those who work in the profession.
You know, how confident are you in the diagnosis of someone else using these tools to diagnose these sort of conditions?
Because, you know, it is a field I only know a little bit, you know, at the edges.
So I'd love to hear from you to get your thoughts on that paper.
Our second story has to do with Artemis.
And this is the next step in our journey to the moon.
Oh good, I was hoping