FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression

Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by nemo44x on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:02PM (#37069555)

I don’t think it’s anything line antibiotics. I don’t judge people for taking brain scramblers but I think it’s obvious they are vastly over prescribed. 20% of women are on some form of them. There’s no way that’s natural. There must be a reason you don’t see the mass adoption of these kinds of drugs in most other countries.

It’s also created a culture of using a pill to solve a problem and yes in some extreme cases it’s probably necessary but I think there’s bigger issues and lots of people with very poor values that create lasting unhappiness.

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Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression by habinero on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:33PM (#37082587)

Why would you consider that not to be normal? Humans have plenty of inherent physical flaws - we have terrible backs and knees, for example. Also, plenty of other countries have similar adoption of ADs.

There was no magic beforetime when we were all happy peasants or hunter-gatherers, singing in the countryside. Humans have always lived with pain and depression and suffering, and to pretend there's any moral good to that is ridiculous, no more than there's any moral good to dying from an infection.

People are so weird about things that actually help others.

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