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Study: Antidepressants Don’t Work
I have seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by pills intended to cure their sadness.
I’ve known several people, a few of whom were very close to me, who decided to take antidepressants. I’ve never known anyone who got observably less depressed as a result. Even more disturbingly, despite the fact that neither their mood nor their lives had improved, down to the last person they insisted that they needed their medication and couldn’t live without it.
Since the 1960s, we’ve been endlessly battered with the idea that sadness is not caused by sad situations, but by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Despite the fact that there was almost no evidence to support this notion, four out of five Americans say they believe it. As a result of believing it, an estimated one in six Americans is on antidepressants. Whites take them at nearly three times the rate that non-whites take them, and twice as many women as men gobble these happy little pills.
I tried Paxil once — for about two months — and that was more than enough for me. I was prescribed it without ever having a blood test taken to determine my serotonin levels. To my knowledge, this is standard procedure. For the past 30 years or so, all one needed to receive a prescription for Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) was to tell your doctor that you’ve been sad.
The high and holy sage Ted Kaczynski nailed what was wrong with antidepressants way back when they first started being prescribed and long before every sixth American was doddering around with SSRIs coursing through their veins:
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.
In other words, antidepressants attempted to treat the symptom of sadness rather than its root cause.
In a new study published in Molecular Biology titled “The serotonin theory of depression: an umbrella review of the evidence,” the authors state that not only does the available literature not support the idea that depression is due to a chemical imbalance, but long-term use of antidepressants might actually be causing lower serotonin among those who use them:
The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations. Some evidence was consistent with the possibility that long-term antidepressant use reduces serotonin concentration. . . . Our comprehensive review of the major strands of research on serotonin shows there is no convincing evidence that depression is associated with, or caused by, lower serotonin concentrations or activity. . . . We suggest it is time to acknowledge that the serotonin theory of depression is not empirically substantiated.
In a summary of their findings, co-authors Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Horowitz write:
For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain — namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research review shows that the evidence does not support it. . . . In fact, drug trials show that antidepressants are barely distinguishable from a placebo (dummy pill) when it comes to treating depression. . . . Stressful life events in themselves, however, exerted a strong effect on people’s subsequent risk of developing depression. . . . Some of the studies in our overview that included people who were taking or had previously taken antidepressants showed evidence that antidepressants may actually lower the concentration or activity of serotonin. . . . The serotonin theory of depression has been one of the most influential and extensively researched biological theories of the origins of depression. Our study shows that this view is not supported by scientific evidence. It also calls into question the basis for the use of antidepressants.
There’s nothing more dangerous or subject to abuse than giving doctors free rein over managing the human mind. Despite this, I’ve always been bemused to find that many people who are typically skeptical of the government, media, and even the medical industry suspend all disbelief when it comes to the psychiatric industry’s medications and the psychological industry’s arbitrary and unquantifiable diagnoses.
Sadness is a human problem rather than a physiological problem. As such, it needs a human rather than a pharmaceutical solution. At the risk of waxing hyperbolic, I’ve said for years that the worst thing to happen to American culture over the past generation was the mass dosing of the populace with antidepressants and painkillers. Perhaps the powers that be saw it as a simple pacification program and didn’t anticipate that people would wind up sadder and crazier than ever.
Through the Sheer Force of Their Hatred, Conservatives are Forcing Gay Men to Give One Another Monkeypox
As if everything that happened in every nanosecond of the last two and a half years wasn’t bad enough, the newest treat on the dessert menu is a zoonotic pathogen with a racist-sounding name that affects gay men almost exclusively.
Making things worse is the fact that when AIDS first emerged in the early 1980s, a common rumor was that it was originally transmitted to humans via sex with monkeys.
Although rats provide the main reservoir of transmission for monkeypox, the virus got its name because it was first identified among monkeys in Denmark in 1959. There are two main variants, a West African and a Congolese one, with an average fatality rate ranging from 1% to 10%.
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This latest outbreak has infected nearly 20,000 people worldwide. Victims are almost exclusively adult males, with those identifying as gay or bisexual accounting for about 95 to 99% of those affected. According to a recent study, “The strong likelihood of sexual transmission was supported by the findings of primary genital, anal, and oral mucosal lesions, which may represent the inoculation site.”
Great, so we have a potentially fatal virus that originated in Africa and is named after monkeys, and it’s primarily transmitted through oral and anal sex between men. This new monkeypox scare is almost like the AIDS crisis all over again, but if they’d referred to AIDS as NIGS.
I remember when the AIDS crisis first broke, sodomitical apologists insisted that it was not a gay disease — but if you were afraid of catching it, you were not a germaphobe, you were a homophobe.
The tireless caretakers of the public welfare over at Media Matters have rung the alarm bell that “Conservatives’ homophobia is putting gay and bisexual men at greater risk of monkeypox”:
Right-wing media outlets and pundits have responded to the rise in monkeypox cases in the United States, which have been found almost exclusively among gay and bisexual men, with a mix of homophobia, misinformation about the origins of the disease, or outright dismissal of the threat it poses. The right has also pushed the conspiracy theory that monkeypox health precautions are either a pretext to surrender U.S. sovereignty to the World Health Organization, or a liberal hoax to tyrannically control citizens through fear. . . . Monkeypox is a real public health risk that for now is almost exclusively affecting men who have sex with men. Local, state, and federal government agencies have legitimately failed these populations. Homophobic attacks from conservatives only serve to stigmatize them and put them further at risk, both of monkeypox and broader anti-gay violence.
It’s the damnedest thing — I thought that having unprotected oral and anal sex was putting gay men at risk of monkeypox. Now I find out that “Homophobic attacks from conservatives” were to blame all along.
In three years, after we’ve all received our fourteenth monkeypox vaccine, they’re going to warn us about the coming wave of gorillapox.
Chinese Filmmaker Forced African Kids to Say “I’m a Black Monster, I Have a Low IQ” in Chinese
Since I’ve dedicated my life to fighting racism, I must preemptively confess that it’s a bit racist to suspect that when the Chinese are done extracting everything of value from Africa, they will have made King Leopold look like a Cub Scout. Having examined Asians over the long arc of my life, I find that they are tremendously susceptible to guilt-tripping, provided that other Asians are doing it. But the wails of a billion agonized black mammies throughout the Dark Continent will fall on deaf Chinese ears.
Lu Ke is a Chinese filmmaker with what might be the shortest combined first and last names in history. He was recently arrested in Zambia and extradited back to Malawi “to face charges relating to racism and child exploitation” due to a series of videos he made in Africa and sold to a Chinese website that had a page called “Jokes About Black People Club.” In one video, he is seen instructing a group of joyous and coal-black children to gleefully shout, “I’m a black monster! My IQ is low!” in Chinese. Ke would then allegedly sell the short videos to the Jokes About Black People page for up to $70 each. Think of it not as TikTok but rather as NigNog.
I have a sense that Malawian authorities will be roughly as merciful with Mr. Ke as the Chinese will be with the entire continent of Africa. We can learn something from these blacks and yellas.
Study about “Racialized” Dog Names Fails to Cite a Single Funny Racist Dog Name
I once adopted a black kitten I named Tyrone. Three years later, I decided he’d joined the Nation of Islam, so I rechristened him as Abdul. Great cat. I suspect a recent study called “When a Name Gives You Pause: Racialized Names and Time to Adoption in a County Dog Shelter” was written about people like me.
The authors, both of whom are white and thus have no excuse, write:
Racialized names carry both penalties and premiums in social life. Prior research on implicit associations shows that racialized names tend to activate feelings of racial bias. . . . We find that as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as White, people adopt them faster. Conversely, as dogs’ names are increasingly perceived as nonhuman (e.g., Fluffy), people adopt them slower. Perceptions of Black names are likewise tied to slower times to adoption, with this effect being concentrated among pit bulls, a breed that is stereotyped as dangerous and racialized as Black.
They pretend to have scientifically arrived at the ten whitest-sounding and blackest-sounding pet names:
White: Ben, Austin, Maggie, Beth, Molly, Ryan, Karen, Lizzy, Luke, Steven
Black: Rihanna, Tyson, Kemba, Drey, Shaye, Tyene, Leroy, Precious, Kobe, Jazzi
. . . and arrived at the following problematic results:
When 0 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name as White, that dog is expected to spend about 7.6 days in the shelter. Across the range of perceived Whiteness, however, time to adoption declines substantially. When 90 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name as White, that dog is expected to spend only about 6 days in the shelter (p < .05).
When 0 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name as Black, that dog is expected to spend about 6.3 days in the shelter. Conversely, when 90 percent of the public perceives a dog’s name as Black, that dog is expected to remain in the shelter for 8.1 days — a difference of about 2 days.
Although they temporarily entertain the idea that it would be more humane to simply give all dogs reliably white names such as Ken and Howard and Percival, the authors resist for the following reasons:
If White-sounding names have the potential to accelerate adoption (especially among pit bulls), should we just give all the dogs White-sounding names? Given our results, this might seem like a “quick fix” that allows shelters to guard against any latent prejudices that clients bring with them onto the adoption floor. But in the long run, this would do nothing to combat the beliefs that allow these inequalities to persist, both in the context of the dog shelter and in the wider world.
Whoever happens to chance upon this article 100 years from now, I want you to know that this was written in the year 2022. People were actually being paid to conduct studies such as this. And some people — not everyone, but even one is too many — thought that society at large would be harmed if you named your dog Deontay rather than Lance.
Guitarist for Super-Macho Heavy Metal Band Sentenced on Kiddie Porn Charges
Manowar is indisputably the most cartoonishly masculine heavy-metal band of all time. They are so masculine, even the statues of eagles on their album covers have a ripped-six pack of abs. They like to do virulently manly things such as posing in loincloths with their bulging muscles oiled for maximum visual satisfaction. They made the Guinness Book of World Records for the loudest performance of all time — and then broke their own record twice. They even hold the world record for longest heavy metal concert of all time, lasting one minute over five hours at some Bulgarian rock festival back in 2008.
With such a track record of improbable machismo, it comes as a surprise to many, but as no surprise at all to others, that Manowar’s longtime guitarist Karl Logan has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for possessing child pornography and six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. As Wikipedia tells it:
Evidence revealed that Logan was in possession of several videos depicting young girls between ages 4 and 12 years old being engaged in a variety of sexual acts with unidentified men. According to arrest warrants, the offenses took place between June 18 and August 2, 2018.
Immediately after his arrest, Manowar disassociated itself from Logan and decreed before their rabid hordes of emotionally challenged and possibly closeted fans that having sex with prepubescent girls has never represented the Berserker spirit of true heavy metal.
As a gesture of goodwill as well as a portent of their inability to sexually prey upon anyone due to their advancing age, the band would be wise to consider changing their name to Manopause.
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My aunt and uncle, who are whiter than mayonnaise and Swiss on Wonder bread, once adopted a retired greyhound named L.A. Homeboy, although I’m sure they would’ve much preferred a Winthrop or Winifred.
I’ve told my wife on more than one occasion that I want to name our next dog Dolomite. Just such a cool sounding name to be yelling on my porch at night.
While I agree that anti depressants along with chiropractic medicine are pure voodoo. I can’t take the risk of my wife getting off them. Hell hath no fury as it is. Let her have her placebos.
I feel for you, man. My wife also takes them. When she feels bad, she assumes it’s because she forgot to take her meds.
Here’s a tabletop exercise from November predicting what if some odd strain of monkeypox were to break out: https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf
It’s sort of like Event 201 back in 2019, when they did a tabletop exercise about the outbreak of some new coronavirus. Then six weeks later, we actually got one! Well, how about that?
Man, someone out there sure must have a crystal ball, huh?
Just wait, the dreaded Novembercron variant will be here just in time for midterms.
Black dysfunction and violence continues across America. Anti-depressants won’t be able to save us. Joe Biden presides over dissolute lumpenproles. These ‘pandemics’ will never end as long as it remains a convenient excuse for terrorizing citizens and concentrating power.
Lu Ke sounds like just the man to evolve the hugely hilarious series The Bumfights.
I just completed rereading “The Myth of Heterosexual Aids” by Michael Fumento. It is a great book which exposes the endless lies of Government Health Agencies, the media, Academia and the other usual suspects.
I appreciate Jim’s article but I wish he would write one completely on Monkey Pox. I am sure it would be very funny, maybe even up there with Steve Sailer’s recent posts on the subject.
now why would Jim want to be like that guy?
Good point. Jim is an excellent writer; he doesn’t have to imitate anybody. I just think SS is also a great writer and he also makes me laugh and his recent posts on Monkey Pox were very witty and funny. I would actually like to see more on this subject by both. I don’t even know if Michael Fumento is still alive or not, but given the book I mentioned, an article by him on Monkey Pox would also be welcome.
Any link to the recent Steve Sailer Monkey Pox articles? I don’t see them on Takimag.
Here is one (see link below) right from TakiMag. July 20. Hope that is recent enough for you. I also seem to remember at least one short post from VDARE but I took a quick look just now and couldn’t find any (not to say they can’t be found there). TakiMag and VDARE are my two main sources for Steve’s stuff. However, I think there are comments to Steve’s posts on Unz.
https://www.takimag.com/article/monkeypox-the-new-aids/
A friend of mine is an anti-vaxxer and has been talking about how dangerous the jab is for two years. But, he lost a ton of credibility when he told me the other day that he needed to get back on Wellbutrin. Taking anti-depressants and vehemently opposing vaccines seems illogical and self-contradictory to me.
Was he taking the antidepressants before the medical establishment and pharmaceutical industries completely destroyed their credibility? I agree, the last two years should have been a wakeup call to cast a skeptical eye on anything else they prescribe.
From my beloved dogs’ names — Brunhilde, Leisel, Shatzie, and Gretchen — most people could ascertain not only my race but the dog’s breed as well. And also, who they would be most likely to growl at or to bite — even if it was only an ankle. In their heroic hearts, they’d go for the jugular to protect me if they could. Their original use in their European homeland was digging badger’s out of their holes. Don’t mess with those little hounds!
a badger would tear apart those dogs
We should do a doggy play date sometime with my pooches Charlamagne Tha Dachshund and Pugface Killah.
I’m sure Charlamagne is a good boy but Pugface Killah will need to keep his paws where I can see them until I’ve had a chance to pat him down. And no ogling the bit©$es.
The depression study linked here does not claim antidepressants do not work (increasingly settled science when used on moderate-severe cases). This study was about whether serotonin changes are associated with depression. Given that this is essentially a review of old studies, there is no news flash here. Antidepressants can help some serious depression by acting on serotonin (or norepinephrine, dopamine and others depending on the drug), but that’s not the same as claiming depression is caused by serotonin etc. A blood test won’t necessarily predict brain serotonin in the way that it typically won’t help detect a brain tumor.
As an example, a lifetime of smoking might cause lung cancer. But deciding to quit cigarettes or eating a bunch of charcoal to detoxify mutagens is not going to treat cancer. Another example, clogged arteries that cause a heart attack. If the arteries are inoperable, drugs that act on the kidney or to lower blood pressure are useful, even if they are not getting at the ‘cause’. Or pain relievers, helpful even if they don’t fix a sunburn. There is also a recent swarm of interest in psilocybin to treat depression. Psilocybin powerfully stimulates serotonin 2A receptors.
I’ve met some seriously depressed people with no reason to be depressed. Many are helped by such medicines. They are not regularly bought on the street because no one feels ‘high’ taking them. They probably act in part to reduce psychic pain enough for people to ‘climb out of it’. They are not reliable at mending the expected amount of sadness when life sucks. They help a lot of people who are severely neurotic and freak out or go to pieces whenever something mild happens (even in dogs with such traits, living a life of white dog privilege). I’m of the opinion the much of the left wing needs to be taking more antidepressants – They are often well meaning unhappy neurotics soothing their psychic angst by some of the positions they take. We all have some neurotic and chronically unhappy friends who give a buck to panhandlers with needle marks – it makes them feel a little more happy, like a good person. And that person will go score, possibly OD but likely not get a bus fare to a detox center. No surprise seeing some husbands comment that they don’t have any problem with their wives taking antidepressants.
Lithium is entirely natural and useful for depression and bipolar. It was once used to fortify 7-Up soda. Multiple studies have found that the amount of naturally occurring lithium in the water supply is correlated with decreased suicide in a community. Perhaps bottle some up for the DNC.
I am still reeling after reading Goad’s post above on the thousands of our young people dying from opioid antidepressants. While of course they do not list deaths by race anymore — that’s racist, you know — nevertheless, I’d bet it is killing tens of thousands of young White kids, male and female. I am hoping that we at Counter Currents can come up with some sort of an ‘out-reach’ to let them know they are the cream of the human crop and we do not want to lose them. I’m sure our better writers could come up with better ways to phrase this concept of a helping hand, but we cannot just sit idly by and have so many leaving this Earth when we need so many new people to fill our ranks.
Maybe, if some of our readers have contemplated suicide, or have been through this same hell with anti-depressants, they could give us some ideas as to how to help. Of course, we are not psychologists or other medical experts, but maybe just hearing about others’ problems will help. I do know there are “Addicts Anonymous” groups, but maybe if they hear it from a group that genuinely cares about White people and their specific problems, they could get a better grip on life. I hope we can get some ideas going.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors are not opiates. This is a completely separate addiction epidemic being backed by the medical industry than the opiate crisis. In other words, they’re coming at us from multiple angles.
A statistic I’ve never seen but which I think would be useful to know is how many mass shooters were on antidepressants.
Right after Sandy Hook happened, I wrote an article tracing the mass shooter/SSRI connection: https://www.takimag.com/article/gunsville_usa_jim_goad/
John Morgan: “A statistic I’ve never seen but which I think would be useful to know is how many mass shooters were on antidepressants.”
Even if a lot of mass shooters are on antidepressants (which I suspect is true) it wouldn’t prove that the antidepressants caused the mass shootings, because people who go on antipressants, almost by definition, already have psychological problems, which is, of course, precisely why they are on antidepressants in the first place. So the correlation with mass shootings could be caused by the preexisting psychological issues, not the medication. So the statistic wouldn’t really prove much we didn’t already know, namely that mass shooters tend to have psychological problems.
I completely slept on the story of Karl Logan being a pedo. Never had a clue he’d be that kind of a pervert.
Doesn’t stain Manowar’s legacy because Battle Hymns might be one of the greatest Heavy Metal albums ever released. Triumph of Steel might be the last Manowar album that hadn’t completely descended into extreme depths of self-parody, but none of their albums from the peak of their career had any involvement from Karl Logan. For me, Manowar will always be best embodied by Ross the Boss and David Shankle.
A common side effect of SSRI antidepressants is said to be a difficulty in reaching orgasm. You would have thought that would make antidepressants a hard sell, but – given their prevalence – that’s clearly not the case. Perhaps William Burroughs was on to something when he claimed that one reason for the popularity of heroin (and alcohol?) was that it reduced people’s sex drive, i.e., Sophocles’s “vicious tyrant”.
I demand equity for my Shih Tzu’s, P. Doggy and Busta Cent!
They sound gangsta. I imagine them barking at the mailman and digging up the flower bed.
When the mailman puts the mail through the slot it’s a race to see who gets there first to “bust that s__t up.”
“Now I find out that “Homophobic attacks from conservatives” were to blame all along.”
And we’d have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those damned meddling kids!
What got me out of my “depression” was starting to work out and do stuff. I think people with lots of responsibilities don’t have time to be depressed. I have a wife and daughter, I don’t have time to have a pity party about the sad state of affairs in the world.
Even when I was working 7-15:30 in a shitty temp job at a call center in a cubicle I was still living it up. I’d get off work and go to the athletic club where depending on the day I’d either do yoga, play squash, or workout. I was still working on my “game” at the time, but hindsight I’m sure all it would have taken was seeing if one of the lady’s after the yoga class wanted a bite to eat at the snack bar and easily may be eating something else afterwards… if you catch my drift. I’d have a night cap of a light beer before I went to sleep and on to the next day.
I mentioned the nightly light beer during a doctor checkup and interestingly he said it wasn’t good, I may have “light depression.” He didn’t try to sell me on any prescription drugs, maybe he was well intended; I was always under the impression that one beer a day wasn’t the worst thing in the world and may even be healthy. That’s what I feel got me out of my “depression:” working, having hobbies, going out occasionally, and some light alcohol consumption while reading a book.
I believe that mental issues facing Westerners are mostly caused by biochemistry, but not the simple serotonin hypothesis. Left unanswered: Even if low serotonin causes depression, what is the cause of low serotonin? It makes no sense for this to be so prevalent.
When you add in the other clear signs of metabolic distress in Westerners, it is even more obvious. Plummeting testosterone levels, diabetes, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome are all signs that at a basic level, our body chemistry is out of whack. Should it be a surprise if mental problems also arise? Even if serotonin is not the explanation, it’s still true that our brains are driven by chemistry.
The study is quoted as saying that stressful events predate sadness. This reminds me of the old theory to explain why men who have heart attacks often are depressed. It went that these were strong men that took pride in providing for their family, and when they become physically unable to do so, it devastated them. Completely plausible. But when they looked closer, they found that usually the depression began to develop before the heart attack. That is, there was an underlying problem that probably caused both.
My guess is that people who are depressed are physically and mentally unhealthy, and this often creates the conditions for stressful events. For example, a depressed person is going to have a hard time keeping his marriage together or performing well at his job.
Considering how fast this has all come on — decades, not generations — it’s not realistic to believe it’s genetic. Something has changed in our environment or behavior that is devastating to our metabolisms.
It angers me that this research into this is not emphasized.
“I believe that mental issues facing Westerners are mostly caused by biochemistry….
I believe that mental issues facing Westerners are mostly caused by allowing women to vote.
Mr. Goad has griped in the past about the tendency of people to ‘self diagnose’ and appoint themselves experts after reading a few paragraphs. Bill Burr has a great recent standup routine on how COVID made experts of everyone with a search engine (“Friends who Kill”). Some of the self diagnosis are claims to be traumatized or depressed by what is in the media: “That comment or article is giving me PTSD, let’s ban or deplatform them.” The trans community is holding the world’s pronouns hostage under threat of suicide.
I’d suggest the problem with antidepressants is not that they dope people up (they don’t), but they don’t work as well as people hope. Especially those going through a situational bad time. Of course, there are some people who are eternally going through a bad time because the slightest stress always sends them into a tailspin… they are more the type to benefit from these treatments. But they’re not addictive. A rat in the cage is not going to push the button for Prozac the way it will for cocaine, meth, heroin, Xanax, PCP or even marijuana.
I’d bet mass shooters are on antidepressants a bit of the time. In the same way people who die of cancer recently received chemotherapy. Or to put it in counter currents vernacular: Police have a greater presence in some minority neighborhoods because that’s where crime is concentrated.
I wouldn’t want to be taking antidepressants and wrestle with the sexual side effects, though not all of them do it. They success of antidepressants is that they work well enough and generally don’t leave people unable to function. If 20% of Americans are on them, we don’t have 20% unemployment. Compare this to opioids or “not a real drug” marijuana, in which regular use is associated with lower IQ, lousy math and SAT scores, not graduating from high school, low motivation, weight gain/munchies, and psychosis in the predisposed. If many more Americans need to be blazing up we will inevitably be subservient to Asians who eat steamed vegetables.
Depressed or not, the mostly sane among us can still get a kick of Jim Goad’s writing. When I disagree once in awhile it’s proof he’s not a bot.
Hardly a surprise that Manowar’s guitarist is a pedophile when they have actual lyrics like this:
“May your sword stay wet, like a young girl in her prime.”
Oh ferfucksakes! Not this muh [insert mental disorder] don’t real stupid bs again. Depression is very much physiological and it very much shows on physiological exams. Not that depressed people displaying highly unusual sleep patterns wouldn’t already point that out to anyone with a brain.
The problem is it gets over-diagnosed and over-medicated. Where I’m from, psychologists actually control for sad life events and an actual shitty life situation that would account for garden variety sadness before stamping a diagnosis. It’s no secret that the Affirmative Action idiots and drug salesmen you have in the States barely bother with that. Heck, even most American psychologists think this is a problem.
But if something gets wrongfully labeled, then logic follows that the real object of the label must not exist, right guys? Just like pointing to a bird and calling it a plane tells us there are no such things as planes.
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