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I think that since industry has boomed, we exposed ourselves to hazardous chemistry. While testing for toxicity, cancers and other illnesses, I think science i

by jokoon 7y ago

I think that since industry has boomed, we exposed ourselves to hazardous chemistry. While testing for toxicity, cancers and other illnesses, I think science is not able to foresee the effect of all the new chemicals we created, especially cocktail effects, endocrine disruptors, and every bit of thing which is a product of industry. If we investigate product per product when something goes wrong, there will be a lot of things that won't be detected. I'm sure there are many effects of all those products, but we cannot remove those components, because of cost/benefits and all the great things they bring. As long as public health agencies can be happy, things are okay. When we are not able to really make quality studies on how the brain is affected because we cannot measure a brain, things become foggy. Add this the norm of 9 to 5, lack of sleep, bad diet, sedentary life style, political frustration, it's expected to have mental illness or imbalance.

iSnow 7y ago
Without some sources, I remain a bit skeptical that any old cocktail of chemicals will interact in a way to cause the whole spectrum of mental or mood disorders we are seeing. It is hard to refute with authority as this is just such a sweeping statement that encompasses most everything around us. I believe there are some indications that it is not that accurate: firstly, depression and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia have probably been described in ancient times (of course with a very different wording) and in different regions of the world. Second: if you look at this chart (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Share_of_the_population_reporting_that_they_had_chronic_depression,_2014_(%25)_HLTH18_II.png https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...), and squint a bit, you can see depression tends to be more frequent in rich, northern European countries like Ireland, Germany, Finland, Sweden than poor, southern countries like Greece or Cyprus. Public awareness is a probable confounding factor, but it could still be that the amount of daylight and outdoor activity is helping in the South, even though living conditions are objectively worse as are environmental standards. It could also be related to social media use (correlation with this: https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm) but this is a very recent phenomenon, so I doubt it is the causal reason.

by jokoon 7y ago

iSnow 7y ago

Without some sources, I remain a bit skeptical that any old cocktail of chemicals will interact in a way to cause the whole spectrum of mental or mood disorders we are seeing. It is hard to refute with authority as this is just such a sweeping statement that encompasses most everything around us. I believe there are some indications that it is not that accurate: firstly, depression and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia have probably been described in ancient times (of course with a very different wording) and in different regions of the world. Second: if you look at this chart (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Share_of_the_population_reporting_that_they_had_chronic_depression,_2014_(%25)_HLTH18_II.png https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...), and squint a bit, you can see depression tends to be more frequent in rich, northern European countries like Ireland, Germany, Finland, Sweden than poor, southern countries like Greece or Cyprus. Public awareness is a probable confounding factor, but it could still be that the amount of daylight and outdoor activity is helping in the South, even though living conditions are objectively worse as are environmental standards. It could also be related to social media use (correlation with this: https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm) but this is a very recent phenomenon, so I doubt it is the causal reason.