The solution will be “Just be happy”. This is gonna kill so many people.
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Didn’t he also have a plan of forcibly sentencing people going cold-turkey off banned psychiatric medication to “therapy” on “organic food farm” labour camps?
Yep. He also wants to "reparent" black children.
If I lose my Viibryd I won't be the first person on my hitlist
RFK is kind of ("kind of" doing a lot of work here) like the guy we need if we didn't live in a capitalist dystopia.
Like, if we had a a socialist revolution it would be really good to rethink and re-evaluate the use of anti depression medication, adhd medication, etc.
I do think a lot of these medications are over prescribed to deal with the alienation people feel. The "problem" for people with ADHD (myself) having to be forced into a specific task/job that eventually becomes impossible to repeat.
Or actually addressing the material conditions of someone's life that lead to depression. Like, a gambling addiction is the most likely addiction to lead to suicide. There is clearly more to "depression" than a chemical problem in ones brain. The answer now is "take this pill and get back to work."
Like, I know he's a dumb ass. But I can understand why he has a general appeal to a population that is frustrated with the use of medication in our society.
The problems of depression, on the scale we have in the west, are primarily related to these issues of alienation that are a fundamental part of capitalist modes of production. On top of a feeling of isolation as we spend our free time either mindlessly scrolling; or worse, watching the genocides and wars our country enacts.
AKA insanity is a sane reaction to an insane world.
Honestly, I meant to add that quote to my comment. But, ya know, ADHD. If I could write out my thoughts without writing a book I would be unstoppable.
As someone with ADHD who is in a great job and able to walk & bus to work, working about 30 hours a week on a great salary, with a wife and girlfriend, able to have many hobbies, I got depression last year. Started an SSRI, and it actually fixed whatever chemical funkiness is in my brain. Sure, it could’ve been dopamine burnout, or drinking beer casually as a hobby (living next to a dozen breweries), but it was 95% a chemical issue. I have the energy I had in my mid 20’s. And ADHD meds help me actually focus on what I want to focus on. For me, it’s all a chemical imbalance, not because of my living situation or whatever.
Sometimes it is just chemical, and we need to accept that.
Republican plan (add water):
So if he wants to make the world a place where people don't need antidepressants anymore, how about he abolishes capitalism and let every person have a house without having to pay money for it, and let everyone grow our own gardens, let everyone live anywhere we want, travel is free, food costs nothing, if people have talents and skills that other people want to learn, then we teach & learn & share & barter
THAT'S COMMUNISM
Nah, it's utopia.
The only reason Utopia doesn't work is because there have always been dishonest greedy manipulative scamsters among us who ruin everything for the honest good people. So part of my Utopian vision is that those dark energy people will be identified then sexually sterilized then launched on a one-way trip to Mars where they can live out the rest of their lives of greed & manipulation & lies among their own like-minded scamsters.
I read that to mean, sadly: "Utopia doesn't work because it is contrary to human nature."
Unfortunately, yes, our brains are still wired almost exactly how they were when we were hunter-gatherers; we just stuff it with more knowledge now.
Back then, sure, greed was a necessary survival instinct to have food over the winters, and hand-outs were risky.
We haven't adapted to the modern world, and the abundance available to us.
Sure, take away the meds that prevent people from making highly irrational decisions.. like doing illigal things with guns. Or if they don't have a gun, illigal things with knives. Perhaps we'll get a new oracle out of it when a Christian nut job gets off thier meds and preaches naked in the streets.
This guy needs to die to his own advice so the universe balances.
7 jobs? Where?!
They're all in government. Plus you have to relocate to D.C. and you'll be paid below market rate.
The best plan to get people off antidepressants is to switch the drugs for millions of dollars.
Im sure epstein island 2.0 is up and running someplace, and probably has plenty of job openings The israelis wouldnt let an operation thats that succesful stay closed. Its probably not even thay hard to find. Those blood and semen covered sheets wont clean themselves. Not to mention shallow grave digging, and fine dining/somolier for the elite, and stitching up the kids for tomorrows partying.
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