{"id":13812,"date":"2017-08-25T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=13812"},"modified":"2017-08-25T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:57:27","slug":"cartoon-week-google-offer-diagnostic-test-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/cartoon-week-google-offer-diagnostic-test-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon of the Week: Google to offer a diagnostic test for depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is getting more and more involved in our life and this time it wants to know about people\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The search giant has recently partnered with the US National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in order to help you monitor your mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Google has rolled out a tool that is intended to let people know if they\u2019re suffering from depression, using \u00a0a clinically validated test called PHQ-9. The assessment asks you several questions related to your energy, appetite, concentration levels, and other things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By tapping \u201cCheck if you\u2019re clinically depressed,\u2019 you can take this private self-assessment to help determine your level of depression and the need for an in-person evaluation,\u201d NAMI explained.<\/p>\n<p>Is Google playing doctor now?<\/p>\n<p>NAMI stated that, \u201cWhile this tool can help, it\u2019s important to note that PHQ-9 is not meant to act as a singular tool for diagnosis,\u201d but if PHQ-9 shows possible depression, you can get the right help more quickly by scheduling a more informed conversation with your doctor.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay tuned for more fun cartoons!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/exoplatform\/cartoon-of-the-week\/\" data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-scale-width=\"80\" data-pin-scale-height=\"200\" data-pin-board-width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow eXo Platform&#8217;s board Cartoon of the Week on Pinterest.<\/a><!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --><script src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is getting more and more involved in our life and this time it wants to know about people\u2019s mental health. The search giant has recently partnered with the US National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in order to help you monitor your mental health. Google has rolled out a tool that is intended to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[813],"tags":[606,817],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":13812},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}