It’s kinda hard not to be depressed and to live without pills when you realize that practically all of the world’s problems are entirely artificial, and most could be solved in a manner of years.
If it wasn’t for bloodthirsty, sociopathic pedophiles and mass murderers, for whom the only objective in life is creating as much suffering as possible and raping as many children as possible.
The entire world came together to fix a massive hole in our atmosphere.
But we can’t be bothered to feed people.
Oof. And your insurance won’t cover the ones that work for you so hope you can get a hardship application in.
We don’t understand happiness or contentment and so money is the north star.
So our society is run by brain broken rich people, who continue a destructive pattern of behavior long after it’s useful. To them I guess happiness feels like materialism. I assume that’s why they project jealousy on everyone and view everything as a zero sum game.
I don’t appreciate this characterization of antidepressants but I do understand it
was prescribed tricyclic antidepressants off label for pain. doc told me they weren’t addictive. they lied. soul–crushing anxiety withdrawal. symptoms improved immediately with one dose. ‘dependency’ is what they called it. pain would have been easier to deal with. two years of tapering and treating anxiety with SSRI etc. nortriptyline is addictive. say no. weed has no withdrawals and helps with the pain.
Depressing. Any optimistic stances here on Lemmy to cheer me up?
Pills aren’t there to convince us everything is ok. They’re more often useful in getting us to a baseline where we can better manage and take control of our lives where we can. If a psychiatrist/therapist is saying something like in this meme, get a new one. There are more resources out there than just pills and therapy
I say this as someone taking pills, going to therapy, and receiving a ton of other support through government programs in a red state in the US. I’d been struggling with suicidal ideation for decades, and in the last year I’ve made some good progress. There’s shitty aspects to life, and I’ve got a ways to go to meet the goals I’ve set for therapy, but it’s still worth living for me
We totally can. It’s just difficult to get past that some people want more than others even if that means harming them.
Some people take joy in hurting others. I have no faith that we can fix that.
Fix? Not without some eugenics (traditional or modern). Mitigate? We can definitely mitigate it. There was a study recently that showed that it’s not really the punishment for a crime that dieters people, it’s the probability they will or won’t get caught that’s the primary factor. So for instance if there’s a 98% chance they will get caught people are unlikely to commit the crime and if there is a 5% chance they will be caught they are much more likely to commit the crime even if the punishment is extremely harsh. There’s of course a balancing act between personal freedoms and privacy and the ability to catch people aka the more privacy people have the more difficult it is to catch crime and generally the less privacy (and ability to parse large sums of data) the easier it is.
Eugenics, yeah, cool. Love it.
Laws aren’t a tool for preventing bad outcomes, and if you think they’re the primary tool you are not a serious person and will not create a functional society.
You would rather change what humanity is on a biological level than fucking acknowledge that existing power structures are nonsense and horrible?
I would ask what drugs you’re on, but since monday I’ve been on or around people who were on acid molly coke meth weed severe head trauma alcohol none of their prescribed antipsychotics dilotted and some rich people designer bullshit that’s just strings of letters and numbers I can never remember. None of it made any of them this deranged.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, it would seem on average a solid third to half of all humans are just inherently fascist. Until they’re gone you will inevitably end up with a fascist society.
‘Inherently’
That’s bullshit. They’re no more inherently fascist than they are inherently Christian, and not all fascists are or were eugenicists.
Far right populist fascism is on the rise literally everywhere and has some or all control of what, like half the first world governments? More of the rest. And you don’t think that’s evidence of an issue?
Is that what I said?