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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think you're misrepresenting the comment.

Depression as a medical term only applies to people who have objectively nothing to be depressed about. Nobody would (to turn it up to 11) argue that a concentration camp inmate has depression when he's feeling like everything's fucked, because very objectively, everything is fucked in his environment.

The comment is instead about people who are thrown into a depressing, pointless situation they can't escape, just like the prisoner, only much much milder. They see no future, because there truly is no future for them. Now, that would be horrible for society, because those people might start to question why exactly they're in this situation. So as a bandaid, they get diagnosed. It's not actually shit, you just see it like that, because you are sick. Here, take a pill. It's gaslighting.

The rolling Stones had a song about mother's little helper 50 years ago. It's not exactly new.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Depression as a medical term only applies to people who have objectively nothing to be depressed about.

WTF? No.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

You can't be depressed! Your life objectively sucks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is essentially medical misinformation, and dangerous. You don’t get to tell me off for misrepresenting a comment when 0.01 seconds later you misrepresent an entire field of medicine lol.

I hate that I am even giving you the tiniest benefit of the doubt but to combat your lying by research and example: People who survived actual concentration camps still suffer i.e. suicidal ideation into the rest of their lives, even though the cause of that trauma is “fixed.”

There is so much cause for trauma out there, from family, to natural disaster, to war. These traumas are deadly and ruin lives through generational trauma, addiction and suicide. In summary, your comment accusing people often just trying to care of themselves and their families, as abusing “bandaids” that actually help them to live meaningful and fulfilling lives is despicable. Go fucking fix society dude! Just don’t piss all over people who have, often for the first time in years, been given a chance to overcome disability and make something positive of their existence.