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Influential descriptions of depression are often misleading
Recent work finds widespread misleading descriptions of depression on authoritative mental health websites.
Recent work from Jani Kajanoja and Jussi Valtonen has highlighted the surprising prevalence of misleading information about depression on authoritative mental health websites. They reference recent research that found that emotional regulation is more successful when people were aware of the causes of their suffering – if educational material bills depression as causative, however, some of those with the condition may not look further to identify potentially-addressable causative factors. It remains unclear how significant such differences in language really are in impressing the true nature of depression on those who suffer from it.
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