Bernd
2025-06-29 16:36:33 ⋅ 6d
No. 343952
A long time ago, in university, I had a class called human computer interaction.
This was before the term UI/UX was even used and it was about designing interfaces in software and apps for better human use.
One of the biggest points of the class was that to ask a person about what is better for her or him is absolutely useless, a person doesn't have a macro view of things and can't do the homework for you.
A person needs to be observed interacting with your interface or at least a mock up of it, and then you see the pain points, what is not working, etc.
In light of this, how come every psychiatric evaluation and diagnosis are basically centered in interviews where the medic makes questions and then try to identity certain symptoms?
How come psychiatrists even assume in the first place that the patient is a reliable narrator to be inquired?
Bernd
2025-07-03 16:43:24 ⋅ 2d
No. 344067
I think psychiatry can only ever be succesful with a cooperative patient (if even then)
There is no other way for a therapist to extract infa 100% from their patient during a session other than interviewing them - or is there?
Bernd
2025-07-04 05:14:33 ⋅ 1d
No. 344097
>>344067
Why no put the patients to do tasks and then observing them behind a glass?
Bernd
2025-07-04 05:26:48 ⋅ 1d
No. 344099
crazy mf
Bernd
2025-07-04 09:27:36 ⋅ 1d
No. 344110
Very interesting observation, cube bernd.
I know a person that had mysterious idiopathic epilepsy seizures emerge out of nowhere. Nobody really knew what it was for years. Eventually after some probing it turns out they had serious delirium as a child that their parents for some reason decided to ignore and never mention, despite it straight up changing their personality, behavior, etc. Also there's a lot of provoking factors that the average person will not know - for some people sugar provokes seizures, lack of sleep, stress. (binging on sugar and not sleeping is also a sign of stress, it's complicated)
With psychiatry, it always turns out there's some bullshit that happened to the patient and they are often simply not aware that it did. Pre-natal damage or abusive environments. But instead of resolving those issues docs tend to default to antipsychotics and other meds, which is just hiding the real problem.