content: “We need quick, objective tests to catch kids when they are suffering,” says the study’s lead author Ellen McGinnis who is a child psychiatry clinician at Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families, University of Vermont Medical Center. “The majority of kids under eight are undiagnosed.”  It can't. Psychiatry/psychology/neuroscience doesn't even have a coherent definition for what depression even is. It is a cluster of related symptoms that can be tied to any number of mental states, also which they are unable to define except by vague, subjective standards. The psychological fields are a fucking mess, because these people are trying to establish themselves and justify their fields as legitimate sciences. It's a lot of people playing like authorities on things they know very little about. Suggesting that children less than 8 are going undiagnosed for "internalizing" disorders is really just saying: your children have a disease because we say they do, even though they aren't presenting the symptom cluster sufficiently. It's because they are internalizing. We really have to reign the psychological sciences in, and fast. It's being weaponized.