Talk:Major depressive disorder

Semi-protected edit request on 2 April 2023

This article must be flagged as having a geopolitical bias. It needs to be globalized beyond the United States and other English speaking countries or Europe. BennuPedia (talk) 20:34, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Lizthegrey (talk) 22:48, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Sourcing of Biomedical Content

You removed this: Research has found that unhappily married couples are at 3–25 times the risk of developing clinical depression.

in favor of this: Couples that are unhappily married have up to 25 times the risk of developing clinical depression.

That doesn't make sense.

You also removed: Should you have experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences, you're 3.2 to 4.0 times more likely to suffer from depression.

claiming it was referenced elsewhere, and more recently. The description of ACEs in the article does not say 3.2 to 4. And I find your issue about the publication date very vague. Lau737 (talk) 15:47, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

References

We discussed these at length on your talk page; once you've processed everything there, we can continue (I'll be away from computer for several hours). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:00, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

We assuredly did not bring up ACEs even once. And why you would bring back the "bad" statement after that lengthy discussion about how everything had to be secondary source, with review articles is beyond me. Lau737 (talk) 16:10, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

What we've talked about at your user talk is information included in these links:

• Template:Editnotices/Page/Major depressive disorder
• WP:MEDRS
• WP:MEDORDER
• WP:MEDDATE

Information about adverse childhood experiences is already in the article, cited to a newer and higher quality source. The information about unhappy marriages, as we discussed, needs secondary sourcing (it now has that, and is in the article using the citation style of this article).

I don't know what the "bad" statement is. Perhaps WP:ONUS and WP:SS will help; this is a broad overview article that has been community vetted, and we don't need to provide excess detail on well-established items like childhood adversity; such detail can probably find a home in a different article. We don't have to necessarily repeat information across multiple articles, and we don't have to repeat detail in a higher level article that may be covered in a sub-article. In terms of how much detail to include, we are governed by due weight (in this case, of the highest quality recent secondary sources). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:07, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

A statement like "four ACEs" increase the risk of depression 3.2 to 4.0 times is relevant to many pages like Major depressive disorder, Family disruption, or Happiness. It's not undue weight. Personally, I find the severity of the increase difficult to spot, even on the Adverse childhood experiences page.

I do not agree with rephrasing all those findings into "an unhappy marriage increases the risk of depression." That's just common sense. People are going to fill in the blank thinking it's +5%, or something, not +200% or +2400% times. It's just a bad way of conveying information

I referred to this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major_depressive_disorder&diff=1186959470&oldid=1186959348 in which you changed 3-25 to "up to 25" and pointed the references to Weissman (1987) via Goldfarb after you told me that you thought that the 25 times study was old.

You then proceeded to remove "25 times in its entirety," in an a subsequent edit described as " →‎Environmental: general"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major_depressive_disorder&diff=1186984595&oldid=1186959470 Lau737 (talk) 13:45, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Lau737 could you please read WP:TALK and WP:THREAD? Following talk page guidelines will make your posts easier for others to work through.

As per our discussion on your talk, I'm still waiting for a secondary source on the 3 to 25 (we have the 25 at Goldfarb), so I generalized the whole thing pending that. If you can provide a secondary source, I agree that expressing a range up to 25 is more useful.

Similar on the childhood adverse events: if you have more than a 15-year-old primary study for the content, "Should you have experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences, you're 3.2 to 4.0 times more likely to suffer from depression" (PMID 16311898), more detail can be added, but depending on due weight in broad overviews of major depression, that content might find a better home at Epigenetics of depression. This is a broad summary article; see WP:ONUS. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:33, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

The additional sources were already secondary: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Major_depressive_disorder&diff=1186959348&oldid=1186957111

They were presented on my talk page before inclusion. One is from the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, so peer-reviewed, the other is from Couple and Family Psychology, so peer reviewed.

https://arammu.com/assets/research/MC%20Depression%20Outcomes.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096140/

I think restricting the information to Epigenetics of depression ignores the psychological importance of adverse childhood experiences.

Lau737 (talk) 16:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Could you please see WP:THREAD (I have again threaded for you).

Both of those papers are primary studies. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:26, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

They are assuredly not. One is Fink et al. (2013) pointing to O-Leary et al. (1994), the other is Gray et al. (2019) which points to Whisman (1999). Lau737 (talk) 10:21, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

• PMID 31584721 (Gray) is a randomized controlled trial.
• PMID 25032063 (Fink) is a primary study, but the preamble does cite 10 to 25 to O'Leary.

So I wouldn't be averse to using the 10 to 25 times, but I still don't know where we're getting the three. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes they are primary studies in regard to their own conclusions, but they are secondary sources in regard to the conclusions of O'Leary and Whisman. Whisman concluded three times. Lau737 (talk) 11:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Extraordinary claim

Please provide a source for this extraordinary claim:

"Major depressive episodes often resolve over time, whether or not they are treated."

It is unsourced and dangerous. Why would people seek help if it resolves over time?

The citation immediately after the claim includes "Since major depression is often a self-limiting disorder that tends to resolve over time...". The claim as-is appears to have existed in the article since at least Feb 2022 so I am hesitant to adjust. Any suggestions are welcome.--Commander Keane (talk) 08:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

FA concerns

As part of WP:URFA/2020, this article has been noticed for WP:FAR in 2020 and 2022. Circling back onto it now, I see that the article has an "update needed" orange banner at the top of the page. Is anyone actively maintaining this article, and able to address this banner? If not, should this go to WP:FAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:16, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@Z1720 Updating the information would just include changing some of the older referances (2014 and below) to newer ones. I don't believe SandyGeorgia is super active anymore but some other more recently active editors who have contributed to the article are Casliber, Boghog, and Cosmic Latte. Not sure if anyone else has interest in the article but I could help with updating the article as well. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 13:59, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@IntentionallyDense: I'm happy if editors step up to update the article. I point out the previous notices because it seems like this article is the type that needs constant monitoring and updating: if editors are willing to do so, that's great. If not, a discussion about its FA status might be warranted. I also think it would be really cool, after updates are complete, to nominate this for WP:TFA as it is an important topic of interest to many users. Z1720 (talk) 14:31, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Just saw this. I'll take a look (again) as well. And probably invite Tobiasi0 to take a look to see when they are statisfied with the updates and removing the tag. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good. If I get around to it today I can also try updating some of the citations. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 19:50, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Okay to help with this I'm going to compile a list of refs that should ideally be replaced (excluding guidlines and historical articles per WP:MEDDATE:

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That's all for now. Feel free to edit my comment to cross off items on this list. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 22:13, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh cool. Some will be able to be updated and some won't - will start looking soon. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I didn't really pay a lot of attention to how all of the sources were used so some may be fine as is. Some of these (such as the dsm 4 refs) should be easy as newer editions of the books have been published since. Another strategy would be to see what papers cite the studies and update from there. IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 04:26, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

I haven't forgotten about this one either....sigh Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:43, 15 December 2024 (UTC)