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I highly agree with this sentiment. After all, it seems in a way that emotions are a reaction to the environment and to one's circumstance. If those are poor, s

I highly agree with this sentiment. After all, it seems in a way that emotions are a reaction to the environment and to one's circumstance. If those are poor, shouldn't the emotions also be poor in a healthy person? Otherwise, what incentive would a person have to seek out a better situation? In my own struggles with depression, I feel one truth I've discovered is that my emotions are calling attention to things in my life, both good and bad. That's useful. I wouldn't want to always feel good about everything. That's why I hope treatments like these are looked at as providing some kind of temporary relief that could help a person find motivation to change things that are bothering them. I know the kind of negativity a person can experience during depression can be totally debilitating. It should treat that debilitation.

chofpsychiatry 5y ago
You are taking your well-being, happiness and choices over your physical body into your own hands. What kind of country would it be in which everyone did that? In what kind of country would one expect those kind of liberties to be protected? How successful could it possibly be? Surely, there is noone who would want to stand up to preserve such a way of life. Instead, look to the Eastern bloc for inspiration and guidance. Look how much money there is to be made by being a facilitator as, while ensuring outright war remains too costly, the superior manpower of the East infests non-meritocratic governing bodies that increasingly exercise power over Western policy decisions - and let us always continue to give the science of mental illness our praise.