On a related note…I was on SSRIs for years and I’m convinced they don’t really work. They do have tons of real (very bad) side effects though.
Plus it just seems like every single medication is just exacerbating certain symptoms, which you have to chase with different medications, causing the circle to go round and round.
That is the Capitalist method to boost the economy and the wasteful spending depends on free riding over colonized people or puppet authoritarian governments in foreign countries that exploit their people. That is why the Capitalists had legalized advertisement to indoctrinate children for many decades despite their complaints over spoiled generation of manchild. It is ironic that Capitalists boost that economic mismanagement is somehow good when the Capitalists practice it to boost the economy because the temporarily economic boost somehow compensated for the long-term effects of corruption, but then claim that this type of mismanagement led to the fall of Socialism that is redefined to mean government intervention instead of government by working class.
I tried several anti-depressants and they all have bad side effects, some of which can be permanent (like dry mouth, which obviously lead to worse dental health). I never felt like the doctors were clear enough about how bad the side-effects were, and especially when a patient is severely depressed they shouldn’t be expected to read and properly conceptualize what the info on the pamphlet means. I was at least in very much of a “can’t get worse” mindset when I first got prescribed an AD and especially considering my urgent referral to therapy meant a six month wait time.
However, after years off meds, I decided I needed to do something, and went back on the least bad one. As I no longer work, I can deal with the side-effects, and be a somewhat more stable and nicer person to be around.
Liberal justifications: it is the buyer’s fault for being deceived (and it is their fault for not being deliquent if the government are doing the deception); the cheating and shaming is an absoluetly righteous punishment against people for having mental health problem (assuming that mental health is a choice); at least it boost the economy (with wasteful management of money that is somehow okay in Capitalist system but not in Communist system).
