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This is a super hot take but if someone wants to be medicated to deal with a dying world than I'm okay with that. I think it's better than hitting the bottle tbh. Obviously companies shouldn't force pills on people but we live in a fucked up capitalist hellscape, so yeah.
No, i feel that entirely. My issue is with supposed doctors prescribing pills like Candy for any little thing. The US has ridiculous rates of anti depressant use. We don’t release the data, but one study found 110 pills consumed per person. Our system isn’t set up to heal people, it’s set up to cover their gaping wounds with paper mache and send them back to work. I can hardly fault the people who went to a professional for help, nor their desire for some sort of salve against our toxic, corrosive society.
That makes perfect sense. As someone who has had genuine chemical imbalances I've had to wrestle with, another thing that's really interesting is that people who are obviously in the depths of delusional/paranoid hell are so afraid of the mental system that they never seek help. It's so sad that its in the state its in, if things were a little better than maybe those people wouldn't balk at therapy while they are in the throes of schizophernia or something.