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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – You have no clue what you are talking aout, do you? The kind of "thinking" that goes on in these biopsychiatry posts is so overloaded with ignorance of neurochemistry, fallacies about what conclusions follow from what premises, groundless assertions, breathtaking leaps of illogic, wishful thinking, appeals to authority, and just flat-out horseshit that it’s hard to know where to even begin dismantling them. It’s just astounding that people believe this stuff. Scratch that — it’s astounding that people think this stuff even *means* anything. Cortisol levels? Oxidative stress? Neurotransmitters? Huh? Do these people just believe whatever they’re told? Christ. Basing your life around a cesspool of fantasy being passed off as "science" is really not the best approach to living. Here’s the truth: no one has any idea how the brain works. No one has any idea how psychotropic drugs work. There are no "mental illnesses." Talking about "serotonin levels" as if you could put a dipstick in your brain and measure them is laughable. Don’t be such a bunch of suckers. The relationship between consciousness and neurochemistry probably won’t be unraveled with another thousand years of research. Just for starters (assuming anyone is willing to think): When SSRIs were new, we were supposed to believe that they corrected the specific "chemical imbalance" that "caused" depression. They were "selective." Leaving aside the fact that (1) pharmacodynamic selectivity was deliberately conflated with selectivity for mood states for marketing purposes, (2) the causality between neurochemistry and consciousness isn’t even *slightly* understood, and (3) the phrase "chemical imbalance" doesn’t actually mean anything, we are now supposed to believe that these drugs also "cure" "generalized anxiety disorder," "post-traumatic stress disorder," "obsessive-compulsive disorder," "social anxiety disorder," an d even fucking PMS for god’s sake. Wow. That sounds *really* "selective." What are the odds that the same "chemical imbalance" is responsible for virtually every feeling that someone doesn’t like? How does "zero" sound? Stop being such a bunch of idiots being led around by the nose. Smart people buy drug company stock. Dumb people buy drug company products. This is because there are always more dumb people than smart people. —
– Quote Chaos
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