Brain implant may lift most severe depression

Re:Brain implant may lift most severe depression by notjulianjaynes on Sunday October 31, 2021 @12:10PM (#29057993)

I agree with your general point, but this also appears to be an experimental, last-resort treatment. Doctors will hand out SSRIs like candy, but I highly doubt that happening for any kind of surgical intervention. I am not aware of anyone with a pacemaker who did not absolutely need one to continue living.

That isnt to say there are not problems with this kind of technology that needs addressing, but I would rank this pretty low in a list of scary technology.

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Re:Brain implant may lift most severe depression by dathinab on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:01PM (#29061318)

I would say it falls into the:

"With grate abuse potential comes grate responsibility to make sure it's not abused." category.

An let's be honest if I would be really deeply stuck in serve depression and the only way way out is to (in a dystopian future) give partial control over my mental state and as such live to a coperation, I probably still would do it. Because being able to live a live which is only partially my live is still better then just being alive instead of living.

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