If you’re not depressed, you’re not normal, and you don’t represent a profit stream for big pharma. From A Midwestern Doctor at theburningplatform.com:
- After the SSRIs were developed, their manufacturers realized the population needed to be convinced they were suffering from depression so as many people as possible would buy their drugs
- The tricks the drug industry used to perform this were remarkable and have many parallels to how the predatory pharmaceutical industry pushes many other drugs on us
- While a minority of patients (about a third) benefit from antidepressant therapy, the majority do not (termed “treatment resistant depression”), but unfortunately, until recently there have been minimal options available for these patients
- Much of this results from depression being viewed as a single illness, rather than a myriad of conditions with somewhat overlapping symptoms which each need to be treated differently (rather than simply all being given the same drug)
When you read history textbooks, you will frequently notice events of the past (and the society going along with them) being cast in a negative light. Yet in many cases, when the exact same processes occurs in the modern era, it is not cast in the same negative light — even when many prominent dissidents are actively explaining why what we are doing is completely insane.
In turn, the hope I and many others share is that in the not-too-distant future, the way our society handled COVID-19 (e.g., locking down the country, suppressing off-patent treatments, mandating a clearly flawed vaccine and aggressively censoring anyone who spoke out against this) will be acknowledged as a profound mistake by the history books.
Remarkably, despite the propaganda apparatus doing everything it could to prop the COVID vaccine up, both due to its immense danger and a dedicated group of online activists who exposed that danger, public opinion has soured on the vaccines and we are now beginning to see official proceedings looking into them.
Dead Kennedys-Plastic Surgery Disasters album insert featured a page full of faux newspaper headlines…depressed then you are in touch with reality.
Got thrown out years ago from the Sigmund Headshrinker for preferring hand rolled over SSRI and this was right before Prozac took off.
Psych Karen looked downright demonic as she told me to get out, and the sun was shining like a New Dawn similar to the day after election day 2016.
O/T-Read a brilliant Substack earlier (h/t-Morgoth) with the title…is Trump the West’s Perestroika?