No i don't think they invented these mental disorders in the first place. |
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Is it possible that the majority of psychological diseases of the 20th century have been invented by pharmaceutical companies? We've all heard of the placebo effect and the power of expectations. Consider how these new diseases come in to being; |
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No i don't think they invented these mental disorders in the first place. |
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Let's see. |
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Originally Posted by Taosaur
I think this is true with many cases of ADD and depresion, people are just experiencing normal life and drug companies tell them their reactions to it are not normal and they need drugs. But I don't know if I would go so far as to say that most psychological diseases are the creations of drug companies, maybe. 90% of people who have ADD don't have a physiological condition, we just have a retarded school system that they can't function in. I'm not so sure about depression, but I think it's the same thing. Our society is fucked up, people are treated like shit, theres agression and contradictions everywhere especially in authority figures. They can't deal with it so we tell them" Oh, your just broken, you need drugs. Your the one whos messed up not us." |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
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I tend to favor the idea that mental illness is primarily caused by divergences in e.g. diet, behavior and social structure from our evolutionary norms. |
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Previously PhilosopherStoned
I don't dispute that the condition of depresson (or any other condition) is real. What I am questioning is whether these conditions are diseases that can be treated with medication and not the normal consequence of certain circumstances; as Philosopherstoned said, things like diet, life events, habits, etc.. Smoking weed makes me happier. Does that mean that my previous unstoned condition was really a disease and marijuana is the proper treatment? |
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I don't think that they're really diseases, but in some cases medication can help treat them, but I really only feel this way about extreme cases of depression. Moderate cases should be treated with marijuana. |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
Women and rhythm section first - Jaco Pastorious
I think pharmaceutical companies have tragically misinterpreted and misused the findings of the psychology community. That doesn't mean psychological illness emerged from the expectation of itself but because classification of illness is so broad and vague, diagnoses can be handed out very indiscriminately with negative consequences for both psychology's credibility as well as the health of the people being misdiagnosed. |
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