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lmao thats like saying colds arent real so that people can sell nyquil

great point

depression never existed before modern pharmaceuticals

Great take op really makes sense

Im scared to express myself on this matter

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so what was depression before the invention of psychotropics? its been well documented before in ancient greece for instance

yooo give me them links g.

even this banal wikipedia article explains that there are different moods, one of which were what i guess we could call depression (at that time they weren't obviously labeled as mood disorders). believed to be based on the balance of your bodily fluids

Hippocrates, in his Aphorisms, characterized all "fears and despondencies, if they last a long time" as being symptomatic of melancholia. Other symptoms mentioned by Hippocrates include: poor appetite, abulia, sleeplessness, irritability, agitation.

doesn't sound much different from what DSM describes as MDD today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia

economist.com/books-and-arts/2012/05/26/melancholy-journey

lowkey agree w thread title but not in no dumbass way

pretty much i feel like the "chemical imbalance" theory is just a way to be sold d**** by making the issue feel biological. And idk if that's necessarily a bad thing becuz sometimes it's nice to believe that how you are isn't because of you, but because of something biologically different about you.

I believe the real root of depression and anxiety based emotional disorders is trauma.

Trauma, especially emotional and verbal trauma, is the root of all evil in a sense. Significant childhood trauma can give you PTSD, putting your brain in survival mode, significantly changing the way your brain functions.

My theory why emotional disorders are so rampant in every minority group is due to both the traumatic nature of diaspora as well as the way traditional minority values are instilled generationally.

Being non-white in the US means at some point in the not too distant past your ancestors had to move here, whether willingly or by force, causing all of your American ancestors to be children of a diaspora. Children of a diaspora are proven to have significantly higher rates of depression and anxiety. Being raised by parents who had to make the difficult journey and decision to move into an entirely foreign society and attempt to find fulfillment and connection despite inherently being ostracized for being different can easily be a traumatic experience. And I don't blame the parents because undertaking a diaspora is an incredibly lonely and difficult potentially traumatic experience itself.

So you end up having parents with PTSD-like brains in survival mode trying to raise children, but they are struggling with emotional disorders themselves. This is how the chain of generational trauma starts, all the way up to your first diaspora-ancestor.

PTSD causes you to repress overwhelmingly traumatic memories either through memory loss or denial making it hard to work through to the root of the trauma. It expresses itself as social anxiety, schizoid paranoia and inability to connect with others intimately.

The issue is that ptsd is not treatable through a medicinal regimen and talk therapy two times a month. Treatment and healing requires constant self-evaluation, meditation, healthy eating, sleeping, and activity habits, as well as a functional human support structure and none of these things are things you can buy, although having money makes it a little more capable.

tl;dr the chemical imbalance theory is designed to make money for pharmaceutical organizations. real treatment of depression isn't something you can find in a pill and usually rooted in traumatic childhood experiences.

s/o some of yall on here who helped me learn some of this and taught me how to take care of myself

op can go f*** himself big time man doesnt know s***

i just checked my pockets and it looks real

Sad hours 😞

Of all time tbh

Interesting take, thanks for sharing! Glad it helped you

What an idiot

For sure been depressed before . But I feel like s*** u can really get thru dat s*** frfr

One of the worst takes I’ve seen on this forum

OP is full of s***, but I would argue that people are being prescribed with bullshit that they don’t even need to take just to make pharmaceutical companies money.

The goat was trying to tell us something

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Also pharmaceutical companies are crazy like that