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Your description of depression makes it sound like, if only depressed people would stop taking medication, they would naturally find the "actual problem" (which
by ryusage 15y ago
Your description of depression makes it sound like, if only depressed people would stop taking medication, they would naturally find the "actual problem" (which you assume exists), solve it, and then no longer be depressed.
I don't know how much experience you've had with actual clinical depression, but as far as I've seen, those people are not "more rational", and leaving them to their own devices makes things worse, not better.
- maeon3 15y agoI've studied the matter in depth, ive tried to talk sense into someone ready to jump off a 4 story building onto concrete or drive into water with handcuffs on the wheel. I was unable to fix them. I left this guy to his own devices when nothing I did helped, I said your brain has some destructive feedback loops going on and you need to go and fix it. He's alive today. Im no expert but I sure have opinions!