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You are missing the point. I'm not saying a more humane society would cure existing mental illness, though I'm sure it would help. The point is that most ment
by codr7 7y ago
You are missing the point.
I'm not saying a more humane society would cure existing mental illness, though I'm sure it would help.
The point is that most mental illness is a product of the society we live in, and the long term solution is fixing that rather than medicating the symptoms.
- asveikau 7y agoThere are a lot of factors. Stress and trauma. Genetics and heredity. Some degree of randomness. I think you are onto something but over-simplify.
- codr7 7y agoTrust me, there's nothing simple about taking this stance and pointing out the big elephant in the room. Blaming chaos or genetics, that's how you over-simplify.
- asveikau 7y agoGenetics is not the only factor, but it is a huge one, not to be ignored. I suppose you think people talk about terms like "family history of mental illness" just for fun?
- Retra 7y agoWhat do you mean "most"? What kinds of mental illnesses are you referring to here?
- codr7 7y agoI mean most, that's about as specific as it makes sense to be since the definition keeps morphing to hook an ever growing part of the population into the profit-machine.
- Retra 7y agoBut you seem to be morphing the definition in order to sculpt your narrative, which is why I'm asking you to nail it down.
- asveikau 7y agoWhen I said that the sufferers of mental illness objectively do suffer, you did not seem to have a problem and you said that society is the primary cause. (And explicitly not a hereditary disposition, as is generally believed to be a factor.) Now you seem to be suggesting the conditions are expanding, as if invented, to serve a profit machine. This all suggests to me that your real opinion is that the illnesses don't exist.
- codr7 7y agoAll I ever said was that most mental illness is a product of society. Anything beyond that is a product of your imagination. If you're going to actively avoid truth by taking every chance to derail the discussion, why even bother?