Re:Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant wit...
by wredcoll on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:04PM
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There's hundreds of years of "depression isn't real and even if it was real the only treatment is to take a walk in the woods!!" and like a decade of "man, ssris are great, they really helped me".
Public responses have probably not finished overcorrecting.
Re:Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant wit...
by SV_BubbleTime on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:34PM
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Fair.
But imo the issue with that might be that “just man up and go take a walk” may still be better advice than “hey kid with your underdeveloped brain… take this maybe psychoactive drug that absolutely changes your brain chemistry in ways we absolutely do not understand causing almost certain addiction with effectively zero supervision unless you self-report murderous and psychotic tendencies! Don’t mind that I’m making kickbacks on every subscription!!”
In terms of possible damage to self and others. And to long term society.
But look at by whom. It’s kind of like gut bacteria making you tolerant to yeasts that they want. MAYBE… the brain altering medications have something similar to… Let’s say a survival mechanism?
Obviously, just joking. Is far more likely that someone is going to defend the medication they’re on because to admit that have been taking and are now addicted to is something harmful, maybe hard swallow.
Double for parents and doctors. If I’m a parent and my kid is on some ADHD SSRI antidepressant methamphetamine cocktail… and it turns out it’s bad and based on a pharma bro cash money grab, that means I was a bad parent. Try and tell me motherfuckers won’t go to their graves before they admit that they harmed children inadvertently.