Psychology research is not a self-help manual

You might feel differently if you were a doctor; I understand self-diagnosis doesn’t always work out for the best. Unfortunately, there’s no good solution besides frequent warnings, and they only work sort-of.

Part of the problem is we treat medicine like a science, except for mental health, which is usually treated as a form of poetry. And again, the articles you read probably aren’t the ones on sale at the supermarket checkout.