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> Saying depression is a “temporary change in behavior" That ain't how I interpreted the above comment. > but it is also has proven efficacy Right, but at wh
by yellowapple 6y ago
> Saying depression is a “temporary change in behavior"
That ain't how I interpreted the above comment.
> but it is also has proven efficacy
Right, but at what cost? It seems very much like something that just replaces one problem with another, at best (and at worst, introduces more problems while the existing ones don't go away).
But hey, as long as it's voluntary, who am I to judge?
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- type0 6y ago> But hey, as long as it's voluntary, who am I to judge? If we are talking about very severely depressed you can't trust them to weight the risks and benefits in their own favor, so the physicians have so big overwhelming influence on their decision that it can't be argued otherwise.
- yellowapple 6y agoThat's kind of what I was underhandedly getting at, yeah. And when applied to more debilitating conditions like schizophrenia, "consent" is even more wibbly-wobbly.