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I'll take "toxic beliefs about the nobility of suffering" for 500, Alex!

From 0 ("rain on my wedding day") to 10 ("Oedipus fulfilling his prophecy by evading it"), I'd give this a 2

"But this feels different. The fact that there is large support feom the left behind this makes me very cautious."

Why does that make you cautious?

Ahem... are you joking?

I'm observing ~3 categories of SSRI negativity in this comment section:

1. Those who have directly experienced negative outcomes from SSRIs or observed negative outcomes in people they care about

2. Those who feel that the medical establishment should more loudly caution about the side effects of SSRIs

3. Those making something tantamount to claims that depression is a natural phenomenon which has been collectively constructed as a mental illness

For (1) and (2) I have only compassion and modest disagreement. For (3), I have nothing but disdain.

Certainly we are all an alchemical output of our nurturing environments and our intrinsic characteristics, and I don't dispute that we could likely dramatically lower the incidence of severe mental illness by improving our culture's capacity for care and solidarity. It's tough out there, for children and adults.

This comment section is absolutely full of people ready and willing to insist that people with depression simply need to cheer up and get over it. And all I can say is: I hope someone shows them a similar level of compassion when they are at their lowest.

Teenage pregnancy, limited rights for unmarried women, heavily surveilled birth-control usage, all that good stuff. So long as the culture is preserved! There are 14 words that basically sum it all up