I don’t think sending them such a video counts as therapy, even if you’re literally doing it to make someone feel better., because it’s short term and minor, and you’ve probably tried a lot of short term, minor interventions in your life, enough to get an idea of what might work. And if you’re wrong, the consequences would be minor.
If someone had depression and you claimed you could cure the depression long term by sending them a cute video, I would indeed say you don’t have enough evidence.
It’s an illustrative example. Even if you don’t believe that therapy can cure depression specifically, it’s supposed to be able to cure things like it.
The problem is your comparison of theraputic interventions to sending someone a cute video. The cute video is there to cure a short term, minor, issue. The therapy is there to cure a long term major, issue. These are different.
I don’t think sending them such a video counts as therapy, even if you’re literally doing it to make someone feel better., because it’s short term and minor, and you’ve probably tried a lot of short term, minor interventions in your life, enough to get an idea of what might work. And if you’re wrong, the consequences would be minor.
If someone had depression and you claimed you could cure the depression long term by sending them a cute video, I would indeed say you don’t have enough evidence.
Yea, but I don’t remember claiming anywhere that I can cure anybody’s depression, and don’t really intend to ever do that...?
It’s an illustrative example. Even if you don’t believe that therapy can cure depression specifically, it’s supposed to be able to cure things like it.
The problem is your comparison of theraputic interventions to sending someone a cute video. The cute video is there to cure a short term, minor, issue. The therapy is there to cure a long term major, issue. These are different.