So what causes depression?
Learned helplessness?
So then fixing depression would involve inflating ones sense of being able to change things through action.
So then a pill that could fix depression would make someone feel like their actions could solve their problems.
So then when someone is on those pills and has violent ideation they will think that doing the violent thing will solve their problems.
So maybe fixing depression really needs to involve creating pathways for people to actually positively change their life circumstances through socially beneficial actions.
Huh weird.
Maybe the act of destroying lives over dumb shit people say or do causes depression.
Maybe constantly being recorded and broadcast causes depression.
Maybe people feel helpless and abandoned by their leaders.
Maybe people feel helpless and abandoned by their leaders.
A lot of the anger in PTSD from war experiences comes from realizing it was for bullshit.
PTSD is largely a brain rewiring in response to being in a situation where you were helpless in the face of existential danger. This can be readily be duplicated in a number of mammals, and was first proven in dogs following the partial flooding of a lab. PTSD leads to fight/flight/freeze responses to that stimuli later on. Anger isnt so much a "this was pointless" reaction as a fight response.
Fortunately PTSD can be treated, largely through talk therapy to fully explain what happened, why it happened, why it was traumatizing, and why you were indeed helpless to protect yourself from the existential danger. Which is difficult because you need a safe, understanding community to do that in. Which is hard to find because people who grok PTSD and people who live in a close knit Mayberry-esque community rarely overlap. Throwing pills at it doesnt help for the same reason morphine doesnt help toothaches - it just numbs you out without treating the root cause.
So what causes depression?
For the young males who carry out the bulk of the heavily-publicized mass shootings? Child abuse/neglect & public school gulags & SSRIs.
So then a pill that could fix depression would make someone feel like their actions could solve their problems. Pills are the wrong choice. If your life sucks, you need to change your behavior. This goes double for anyone age 18 or older because they aren't beholden to parents or guardians and can change their life at will. Anyone using the "muy feels of helplessness" excuse is pathetic.
If your life sucks, you need to change your behavior. This goes double for anyone age 18 or older because they aren't beholden to parents or guardians and can change their life at will. Anyone using the "muy feels of helplessness" excuse is pathetic.
People won't do anything if they don't think it can actually improve their situation.
Then go play with bears. If someone isnt willing to think how to better their life then they're effectively dead already.
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