Reply to "Clarity on ACE Score and Rates of Antidepressant Prescriptions"

While I'm not immediately able to offer a refutation on all the assertions presented here, I had a higher ACE score on the World Health Organization's ACE International Questionaire (6), than on the CDC/Kaiser 8/10 question ACE screen (4), but I also had a Resilience score of 10. I did have occasion to be prescribed an antidepressant--before I learned of the ACE study, but I don't recall being on the medication for more than one "person year", in the fifty years since I experienced those ACEs. Some of my ACEs are only 48-49 years 'old', although most are over 50 years 'old'.

I'm wondering who prepared the graph, and what ACE screening tool was used to calculate their ACE score, and why a 'Resilience score' was not considered in the criteria. Where did you find this graph, Cissy, and was it accompanied by an article or explanatory material[s] ?

12/6/163:33 PM

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