To your first point, I suspect that hacking your own brain and pituitary gland fits with the ethos of hacker culture. What’s cooler than going to the doctor and

To your first point, I suspect that hacking your own brain and pituitary gland fits with the ethos of hacker culture. What’s cooler than going to the doctor and getting the same SSRIs as every other chump when you can hack together your own medication? In reality this is why we need serious research into these drugs. I am sure there are therapeutic benefits and also yet unknown risks. Would be nice to study them formally. To your second point: I know very few people without mental illness. GAD and generalized depression account for a large part of it, but so do neurodivergenicies like autism. Chances are much higher than you think that you yourself have one or more condition like this. That’s not to say I wish for you to have one, just that statistically speaking lots of people have them, so much so that the current advice is to establish mental healthcare same as you do with a primary care physician and have at least yearly checkups.