Discontinuation Syndrome goes brrrrr… [Error, brain.exe has crashed because antidepressant.dll is not found]

  • froghorse@lemm.eeEnglish
    225·
    1 year ago

    “needed medication” is so open to interpretation.

    So reliant on the opinions of people who see you as a cow to be milked.

    So reliant upon a narrative espoused by a populace that can’t tell its ass from its elbow.

    So reliant upon the assertions of a gang of professional liars.

    Do your own research.

      • WtfEvenIsExistence1️@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Don’t tell him about the water supply. It’s filled with chemicals known as Dihydrogen monoxide. 100% of the people who comes into contact with it eventually dies. This must stop! Ban Dihydrogen monoxide!

      • froghorse@lemm.eeEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

        Actually, there are so many food producers. Locally, globally and everything in between, that getting stuck buying food from an inscrutable priesthood with a monopoly on food really isn’t a problem.

        Exotic pharmaceuticals otoh…

        • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          1 year ago

          Good point, there are no morally bankrupt monopolies or mega corporations in the food industry. Thank goodness

          • froghorse@lemm.eeEnglish
            14·
            1 year ago

            Actually yes. When there are a couple thousand independent farmers in my state alone, and anybody can plant a garden (and growing food isn’t a much of secret scientific mystery either). It rather kills monopolies.

            • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              1 year ago

              Well, if there were a couple of thousand of them in your state then they wouldn’t be alone would they, so which is it?

              Good point again though, anyone can grow food! Anyway, I’m off to grow my rice, wheat, sugar, cocoa, coffee, vegetables and milk for the day.

              • froghorse@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I’ve been out of social media for a while, just recently came back, hoping Lemmy would be saner.

                You ever see The Exorcist?

                When the two priests are climbing the stairs up to where the possessed girl awaits, the old priest says to the young priest, “Whatever you do, don’t engage.”

                I feel like this place is full of crazy demons like that. And I’ve been engaging too much.

                I think this is an inherent weakness of large scale social media. It gives the small percentage of the population that happens to be angry children, crazies, etc, access to everybody else. And then they run the whole show. It exposes us to this vast population of demons.

                I think that small scale social media is the way to go.

                I will now leave you demons to do whatever it is you do when you can’t find a dissenting opinion to dogpile.

                Adios.

    • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      The research in question here obviously isn’t pubmed or publishing journals but boomer Facebook memes, “holistic” mommy bloggers and at least a few nazis in a trench coat pretending to be a doctor

    • ahornsirup@artemis.camp
      71·
      1 year ago

      If by “do your own research” you mean “read the studies” then by all means, go ahead. If, and I guess that’ll be the case for 99% of people without related degrees, you can’t understand them you should accept that you’re in no way equipped to do your own research.

    • loobkoob@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      I can only assume from this comment that you’re American. In countries with nationalised healthcare, our medical professionals don’t profit at all from selling medication; they prescribe medication because it is what their patients need. America might have a profit-driven healthcare system but don’t assume that every country does.