Quote from: SM on Oct 03, 2014, 08:30:40 PM
They are one part of the solution. Not cure-alls.
Ideally their current incarnation isn't even in the picture.
My old thinking was that the pharmaceutical conglomerates are exploiting the dark corner that is public knowledge of mental illness, and that medication is only mildly effective but carries alarming side effects (that are strangely not talked about), in which case people and their children are not being treated, but preyed upon.
Additionally, I thought the issue was being further compounded by it being culturally and socially in-grained such that public opinion is generally that medication is a first-line treatment or that an SSRI prescription is in some way comparable to getting a flu shot, when really it's just greed being concealed by the wide spread and largely un-conscious naivety that science can only be used for good, or the tendency for people to be stubborn to change because they won't admit they've been lead astray when everything points to it. I also make honorable mention that the educated know the uneducated will eat up everything they say.
But then I decided the source of the problem is the subtle and ongoing encouragement of helplessness, and that fixing this would be the equivalent of taking down the mothership of first world oppression.
And no, I'm not bashing people with severe depression, I'm bashing both the people that pretend to be the authority on diagnosing and treating human suffering, and the people that never make an effort to become skilled in finding good information, so when they do become severely depressed, they have no course of action
but to gamble with their own quality of life and step into the impersonal meat grinder described above.
