I'm curious if this is more of a correlation vs causation thing. All of these things are much easier to do when not depressed, so I wonder if that affects the findings.
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
10 points (100.0% liked)
Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related
2343 readers
102 users here now
Health: physical and mental, individual and public.
Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.
See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.
Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.
Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.
Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.
Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
If I understand correctly, the study looked at people over time, so what is investigated is the behavior of mentally healthy people and what happens to them in the future.
It's still not perfect, since they used a date of diagnosis as a proxy for people becoming depressed. This is actually mentioned as one of the limitations in the study (in the second to last paragraph of the Discussion section).