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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by akiselev on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:55AM
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> I'll join the chorus of the other sibling commenters here by expressing skepticism that any medication will at all help with anything. (emphasis mine)
Right there in the first line. "Any medication", "at all", and "with anything." Come on :)
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by pfortuny on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:22AM
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The way you wrote your first paragraph is, honestly, condescending, whether you intended it or not, and gives exactly that impression.
Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report...
by SamoyedFurFluff on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:44AM
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Maybe you should consider studying rhetoric when making positional statements in the future. It’s clear that your language is failing to fully encompass your position. I myself am very confused how I can take away skepticism that any medical will help at all as somehow having any nuance that medication might work.
As someone with over 20 years of mental health issues who refused medication for exactly the same reasons - "sucking it up," trying to address root causes, meditation, spirituality, exercise...
... none of it worked. You could easily spend a lifetime trying to "root cause" the source of your malady and return empty handed, as I have. When the bills need to get paid, and your options are psychological collapse or some chemical attenuation of your mental state, I think the choice is clear.
I agree that it's sort of twisted that modern society is structured such that we need to constantly medicate ourselves to cope with day to day existence.
Alas.