therapy, forms, literal-mindedness
I wonder how much quiet distress has been caused by standard forms of the PHQ-9 depression severity diagnostic questionnaire asking people to report how often various things have happened in the last two weeks (14 days) as ones of:
- Not at all
- Several days
- More than half the days
- Nearly every day
when some specific thing happened on, say, /one/ day in those two weeks.
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re: therapy, forms, literal-mindedness
@packbat I've grumbled about this so many times to basically anyone who'll listen. Every week, I have to fill out three different questionnaires (QIDS SR-16, PHQ-9, GAD-7) spanning two double-sided pages:
- early in the day when I haven't encountered most of the day's challenges;
- but late enough to be properly up on my daily meds;
- while navigating bizarrely worded questions and multiple-choice answers that don't really explain what I've been feeling;
- as if I can remember a damn thing about the previous twenty-four hours let alone the previous day aside from "world going to hell but also ponies are nice".
This leads to chronic underreporting, even though the tests themselves add a little more to my anxiety. I'm sure these numbers are doing somebody some good, though....
