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@lain remember when the soyientists deboonked their own theory about serotonin and the mechanism of action behind SSRIs? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

Psychopharmacology is a giant fucking shrug-a-thon. Just a bunch of pseudo-scientists standing in a circle shrugging at each other and nodding.

@lain the reason I've heard is because it makes you feel well enough to actually follow through with suicide, and you are too depressed to do it before.

@crunklord420 they were right

@mitchconner here's why you want to kill yourself on antidepressants (and why it's a good thing!)

@lain Impossible, society takes your first time you ask for help and give you a sugar pill; of course this causes thoughts of suicide. Also see suicide hotlines with wait times.
These airnt the solutions being promised.

The medical industry lobbies governments to outlaw everything that makes people happy, so they can sell shit that doesn't work.


> Noooooo.... supplemeny x is popular? We better outlaw it.

@Humpleupagus @crunklord420 @lain supplements are mostly snakeoil as well

Nope. Not if you know what you're doing. The difference is gate keeping. There's no doctor or big pharma between you and an otc supplement.

To the extent it's "snake oil", user ignorance isn't my problem, except to the extent that big pharma has spread that myth in order to undermine self-determination.

Tldr; don't repeat big pharma talking points.