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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by xapata on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:00AM (#29734997)
Indeed. Thus we describe that experience as mental illness.
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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by birksherty on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:46AM (#29737659)
Why is wanting to stop pain and trauma is illness and wanting to continue in more of that useless suffering is normal? I am not talking about privileged here but most people who struggle whole life in world.
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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by xapata on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:02AM (#29745705)
Because if suicide were typical, humanity wouldn't exist. Mental illness is merely abnormality, not necessarily something ethically wrong or illogical given one's a priori beliefs.
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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by birksherty on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:38AM (#29794534)
> Mental illness is merely abnormality, not necessarily something ethically wrong or illogical given one's a priori beliefs.

I agree, but what you're saying is not how the world see it. Many things that make humans exists are not necessary or makes life difficult now anyway. Like phobias, vomiting while travelling by car, allergies etc.

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