There are over dozen articles with the “depression” tag, but I am not sure how to find out which ones of them the readers “have not considered strongly enough”. Maybe if we made a list of them, and then a survey asking people which one have they tried (and what was the result).
There was a recent survey about many things, including depression, on Astral Codex Ten. I am not sure where the results can be found.
If I tried to guess, the most efficient treatment of depression that many LessWrong readers would nonetheless avoid is “finding Jesus (and joining a religious community)”.
Though, given the high levels of akrasia, I wouldn’t be too surprised if “I am depressed, I have read about X and it seemed like a great idea, no I haven’t actually tried X myself” would actually be true for most values of X.
Given that akrasia is usually made worse by depression, in a certain sense I’m not sure a treatment can be effective if it requires too much willpower to carry out.
There are over dozen articles with the “depression” tag, but I am not sure how to find out which ones of them the readers “have not considered strongly enough”. Maybe if we made a list of them, and then a survey asking people which one have they tried (and what was the result).
There was a recent survey about many things, including depression, on Astral Codex Ten. I am not sure where the results can be found.
If I tried to guess, the most efficient treatment of depression that many LessWrong readers would nonetheless avoid is “finding Jesus (and joining a religious community)”.
Though, given the high levels of akrasia, I wouldn’t be too surprised if “I am depressed, I have read about X and it seemed like a great idea, no I haven’t actually tried X myself” would actually be true for most values of X.
Given that akrasia is usually made worse by depression, in a certain sense I’m not sure a treatment can be effective if it requires too much willpower to carry out.