Your Chemical Romance

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35 points·benbreen··7 comments

> One example from early in the book: Even otherwise compatible romantic partners can be rendered miserable by a big difference in sex drives

How is this a supporting fact? This just proves that supposedly well-intentioned medical interventions can wreck havock in other areas.

Doctors seems to want to medicalize normality at every turn. They've done so with disastrous consequences. We have more people with mental health issues than ever in this country, with the burden getting bigger every day.

This is aside from the fact that the supposed guilds that should be working to help us act more like cartels trying to drug us, lie to us, and corrupt our institutions at every turn.

If that sounds harsh - the offense is all on their side.

This is indeed an issue, but so many people are already on libido-suppressing drugs, between birth-control and antidepressants.

I guess you just chemically castrate everybody, and we live in platonic peace and harmony like in Futurama's Neutopia.

Birth-control is libido-suppressing?

Can be. In general it can be lots of things because shitloads of hormones do weird things

I'd be interested in learning more.

That is the point. Switching from Lexapro to Wellbuterin as an example that we should start generally medicating people who have marital problems to me is an example of how bad this industry is.

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