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I don't agree with him. But my personal experience supports his conclusion. Was super depressed after GF cheated and left me. For like 2 years, had both social anxiety and depression. Was on Pristiq. Eventually had no insurance so I had no medication. Had to learn to live without it. Even if I don't agree with Josh that it isn't real and there can be something physical, chemical, or psychological causing depression, I don't think drugs are the best solution, only the solution they want to pedal to the masses. But it is also kinda weird how Josh takes this position when he basically argued the opposite with Mumkey Jones, "Do not EVER suddenly go off your medication, your depression and mental anguish is very real and you WILL kill yourself if you do this."
Yeah I can agree with that, medication is overprescribed for every condition because it is the easiest and most profitable way to "treat" diseases of the mind. A lot of these medications are the incorrect treatment for the specific form of depression or anxiety someone has and they can actually make problems worse. The recommended treatment is actually a mixture of medications, heavily monitored, along with some form of therapy - this is almost never followed, which is not the fault of the patient but of the medical system itself. Often the treatment is a general medication which is designed to create new symptoms, such as dulling of the senses, with any reports of it not working being to up the dosage or try different medication and any therapy given is often subpar, a system of charlatans focused on profit and disinterested in actually treating people. It's an incredibly complicated field of medicine which is greatly misunderstood and abused for profit. I'm not a doctor but I have an interest in this due to personal circumstances (some of the most talented people I ever met had their lives ruined by mental illness). In your instance it sounds like you got fucked every which way - they just gave you generalized drugs and sent you on your way until your insurance ran out, when you should have been given specific medication short-term while you underwent therapeutic treatment for a traumatic event.
I mean if the medical system wasn't fucked imagine how people could be contributing members of society instead of hollow husks of their former selves - especially in the case of transgenders, a lot of whom need to be treated for their delusions instead of castrated and made to be life-long buyers of pain medications and other treatments which benefit nobody but a corrupt system while feeding their delusions.
I mean if the medical system wasn't fucked imagine how people could be contributing members of society instead of hollow husks of their former selves - especially in the case of transgenders, a lot of whom need to be treated for their delusions instead of castrated and made to be life-long buyers of pain medications and other treatments which benefit nobody but a corrupt system while feeding their delusions.
But yeah, I think Null gave a bad take - we all got them, no shame in that. To say that we live in the best time in human history and other people have it worse with the solution to all depression being we just need to find a reason to live is to fundamentally misunderstand mental illness. To assume it is a generalized thing that just needs to solved with logic is a little silly but, as he said "It's just my take". We can also all agree that the state-funded murder of depressed people is a much worse solution than "just get over it" though.