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AMEN!  [USER=12858]@Charliebizz[/USER], since I was in special education I know what tests the diagnosticians used to test for depression:


The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) -- a 9-item self-administered diagnostic screening and severity tool based on current diagnostic criteria for major depression. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), -- a 21-question multiple-choice self-report that measures the severity of depression symptoms and feelings.


So, they then get doctors they work with to start prescribing AIs based on a questionaire.  Kind of scarey to say they least.  This is why so many kids are takng these drugs.  A cleaver kid sure could fake answers on this document and get anti-depressants to sell to his friends.   I looked at them both one time and figured out quickly how to be diagnosed as clinically depressed.  In special education, its all about federal money.


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