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  • You think concentration camps tend to be voluntary?

    No. But RFK hasn’t threatened concentration camps. When referencing SSRIs he specificly said “if they want to”.

    Or do you think people can just start and stop SSRI’s at will?

    It is medically recommended to scale up and down dosage slowly for a reason. People have experienced negative side effects when they suddenly stop taking them.

    Either statement is fucking stupid, and could only emanate from someone with an IQ less than their shoe size.

    I would describe offering illegal drug users an alternative to incarceration is the opposite of stupid. What I can’t believe is that Republicans will let this happen.




  • Even if bad doctors were a significant cause, they at minimum aren’t alone.

    Fallacy of relative privation.

    It’s way easier to blame individuals than realize the problem is way bigger than that.

    Agreed. It’s not a particular doctor. The current medical framework gives incentive to providing an easy, quick, cheap fix to what is often a complex problem.

    It’s a comforting lie because it lets you pretend that the solution is clear and doable.

    To be clear. I think RFKs solution is neither clear nor doable. I don’t think it even addresses the main cause of the problem.



  • only industrialized nation with no universal health care

    Yes. “Cure all” pills are much cheaper than analysis. No wonder insurance pushes them.

    minimal (if any) social safety nets.

    Partially. This certainly increases stress and allows it to be (falsely?) used as a cause.

    shit economy

    No. The rest of the world has worse economies but less antidepressants

    only benefits the upper 1%,

    Not the 1% in particular, but lower social class has higher usage of antidepressants.

    and the very obvious fascist heading

    Antidepressant overprescription has been building for more than a decade. It’s not just Trumps fault.




  • As a data guy we need to explain why 11% of Americans over the age of 12 take an antidepressant. The USA is, yet again, a world leader.

    RFKjr has an alternative solution. If it’s small scale and voluntary then costs to society are minimal. If it’s large scale and compulsory then it’s very fascist.

    My opinion is that the medical profession should focus on the cause of the above statistic. Not the solution.

    My hypothesis is that lazy doctors are being paid to prescribe antidepressants. Whenever they can’t find a solution they identify “stress”.