you’d think that with the vast increase in prescription rates of SSRIs and other antidepressents, that there would be a commensurate reduction in population-wide depression. But no, if anything the more antidepressents are prescribed, the more general depression you get in the population. Same thing with suicide rates. This is correlation and not causation obviously, but it still suggests that antidepressents are not doing what they are advertised as doing.

I’ll just cut straight to the assertion, which seems obvious enough to not require more explanation.

Mental illness is not biologically determined. It is socially determined.

At best antidepressent prescriptions mask the underlying cause of symptoms. At. best.

plenty of nazis ended up in nasa, in the UN and in argentina

we need a butlerian jihad. I want smart humans and dumb machines again

this is hilarious

‘he was downvoted for speaking the truth’

you should check out the 2009 ghostbusters game, many consider it to be the true ‘ghostbusters 3’

garbage in - garbage out is the basic problem with using polls to explain every fracture within every issue. There’s also a deeper problem of trying to quantify what is ultimately not quantifiable. Polls can maybe give you a hint about changing moods but the reality of what is changing and why can’t be captured in numbers. What you can sample is the rate at which a mood is changing, which I acknowledge isn’t nothing but it’s also very limited.

And that’s without getting into the variety of ways polls are manipulated or outright rigged…