Re:Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases
by danharaj on Monday March 28, 2016 @09:40PM
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What i'm suggesting is that its perhaps not even a coherent idea that one can remove depression without harming a person's mind in negative ways in the general case. There are some people who make fantastic recoveries with modern pharmaceutical treatments for mental disorders, but there are many who pay a steeper cost.
I'm well aware of how distorting depression is. I've been nearly bed-ridden for days at the worst of times. I am equally well aware of how distorting the pharmaceutical treatments for depression can be. It is like trying to correct a distorted mirror by putting a distorted lens in front of it for many people.
Some people have mental disorders that respond perfectly to purely pharmaceutical treatment. I don't know how many, but i doubt it's a majority or even a significant minority.
I'm not talking about SSRI's, I mean a theoretical way of removing only depression and the similar kinds of chronic anxiety. You can be very creative and introspective without being actively depressed.
> Reality distortion is reality distortion.
It's depression that distorts reality, even to the point of making you feel negative emotions that you know aren't true but can't stop.
> I reject procrustean medicine that fits humans to the mold of what is best for society, which is the primary environment in which anxiety/depression originate.
That's great. Me too. But that's really a different issue. You could fix that entirely, and you'd still have people hurt by depression.