A Finnish study, appearing in the journal Psychopathology, shows that people are commonly given misleading information about depression. According to the researchers, inaccurate information makes it harder for people to understand the causes of their distress. Most psychiatric diagnoses are purely descriptive. For example, a diagnosis of depression is only a description of the various psychological symptoms—not the cause. Yet depression is often talked about as a disorder that causes low mood and other symptoms. Researchers describe this as a form of circular reasoning, which means that psychiatric diagnoses are Read More