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https://twitter.com/psychunseen/status/18206048980248703692/ Many have distinguished the terms based on duration/chronicity (e.g., mood is pervasive/enduring while affect is moment-to-moment) and subjective (mood)/objective(affect), but depending on the source, opposite claims have also been made about each.
https://twitter.com/eliotmuir/status/18110619135868931722/ The perspectives of doctors, patients, and families are distinct. One is not necessarily more "deep" than another and each contributes something, reminiscent of the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
https://twitter.com/DBDouble/status/16204524795562926102/ Like Bleuler's "group of schizophrenias," mental disorders are wastebasket categories that likely represent many different biopsychosocial pathways to a given constellation of symptoms.
https://twitter.com/doctorid/status/15536501287954513922/ And so, the monoamine theory was born out of the observed efficacy of MAOIs and TCAs. Prozac was developed more deliberately as a serotonergic drug, but this was done more to reduce the side effect burden of ADs than based on any premise of a serotonergic theory of depression.
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