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Journal BarbaraHudson's Journal: Zoe Quinn's Depression Quest Is No More 3

Remember Zoe Quinn and her claim to being a game developer because she used a flip-book template generator to make that totally awful Depression Quest? Well, depressionquest.com expired the day before Valentine's Day. It's in the "pending deletion" phase. Clicking on it brings you to the notice that it's expired.

Just letting everyone know so that maybe someone can put something more, shall we say, "entertaining" there because there are a LOT of links to that site.

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Zoe Quinn's Depression Quest Is No More

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  • There was this "GamerGate" thing that went down, and I was all "meh" from start to now.
  • ZQ ended up doing depressives, women, and herself a big disservice. Not entirely her fault, perhaps, though it seems she'd be better off getting lots more help for herself before thinking she's anywhere near ready to help anyone else.

    • I tried the game just to see how bad it was, and one thing that struck me was that the therapist prescribed drugs. Only medical doctors, dentists, and veterinarians can prescribe drugs. Not psychologists, not therapists. And psychiatrists haven't got enough time to do one-on-one therapy - they pass it on to specialists, such as psychologists and recognized therapists.

      That glaring mistake makes me believe that she doesn't know squat about real depressive disorders, and was just making it up based on how she

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