kids and depression ?

Q.I found many of my peers to have children suffering from depression I found a great article on depression

A.I think that the increased attention that the person practicing homeopathy (sorry, I cannot bring myself to call such a person doctor or a physician) might help with the depression. If your peers have kids with depression, I would recommend a full medical check-up and proper pediatric or adult psychological care. Depression is nothing to fool around with. Many patients with depression kill themselves and sometimes others. They can be miserable and their contributions to themselves and their family and friends become less. If you want to help these people, get them to a REAL doctor. You should change your account name to "Yikes!" (from tides). This is not science. It is an untested hypothesis based on a few anecdotal reports. The phrases "It is my suspicion," "seems congruent," and the best one: "While we only know of anecdotal reports of such improvements." These are signs that this report is not based on any real science. I would take it with a truck-load of salt or two. I think that the kids with depression would be much more likely to benefit from seeing a qualified doctor than trying some diet that has not been shown to work. What an unfortunate attitude! You attack statements that were written to ensure that the reader will not be misled. You call such phrases unscientific. Yet you use "I think" in your own post. Are such qualifying statements scientific only when you use them? Further, you claim that the diet has not been shown to work, yet it has repeatedly been reported in the peer reviewed literature as helpful in aiding depression in celiac patients, and that same literature reports that more than 90% of cases of celiac disease go undiagnosed. Additionally, the tests recommended by this article must, where I live, be ordered by qualified physicians in my area. Do you live in an area where such serological testing can be ordered by others? I see no evidence of clinical trials of any diet in the web page that affects depression without regard to celiac disease, which is what this page is recommending.

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