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How is this any different from the so-called "opioid epidemic" or any other prescription or substance abuse? Will the politicians and news media give this as mu
by notadoc 9y ago
How is this any different from the so-called "opioid epidemic" or any other prescription or substance abuse? Will the politicians and news media give this as much hysteria? Will they take punitive actions against patients?
People are medicated, self-medicated, addicts, etc for various reasons. Why are we so obsessed with what other people do or don't do?
- wutbrodo 9y agoI might be misunderstanding where you're coming from, but presumably the concern isn't for medicating the anxiety, it's for the prevalence of anxiety itself. If there's a novel high incidence of anxiety across the population, how is that _not_ interesting? Is the concept of concern for other people really that alien to you? Hell, even if we stick with your model of "why would I ever care about another person's well-being", understanding that anxiety is apparently so common can help an individual better understand where his anxiety is coming from (eg perhaps weighting universal factors more heavily than personal ones).