Depressing. Any optimistic stances here on Lemmy to cheer me up?
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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Pills aren't there to convince us everything is ok. They're more often useful in getting us to a baseline where we can better manage and take control of our lives where we can. If a psychiatrist/therapist is saying something like in this meme, get a new one. There are more resources out there than just pills and therapy
I say this as someone taking pills, going to therapy, and receiving a ton of other support through government programs in a red state in the US. I'd been struggling with suicidal ideation for decades, and in the last year I've made some good progress. There's shitty aspects to life, and I've got a ways to go to meet the goals I've set for therapy, but it's still worth living for me
We totally can. It's just difficult to get past that some people want more than others even if that means harming them.
Some people take joy in hurting others. I have no faith that we can fix that.
Fix? Not without some eugenics (traditional or modern). Mitigate? We can definitely mitigate it. There was a study recently that showed that it's not really the punishment for a crime that dieters people, it's the probability they will or won't get caught that's the primary factor. So for instance if there's a 98% chance they will get caught people are unlikely to commit the crime and if there is a 5% chance they will be caught they are much more likely to commit the crime even if the punishment is extremely harsh. There's of course a balancing act between personal freedoms and privacy and the ability to catch people aka the more privacy people have the more difficult it is to catch crime and generally the less privacy (and ability to parse large sums of data) the easier it is.
"Better living through chemistry"
The real cure will take far more than any amount of pills can provide.
But they can assist you along the way
Oof. And your insurance won't cover the ones that work for you so hope you can get a hardship application in.
Or the doctor won't prescribe the one you know works unless you try 2-3 that gave you a psychotic break last time because "It works for most people".
because ~~“It works for most people”.~~ "The drug reps catered us Outback last week."
They don't even do that. I still hate it here, I just don't get so easily sucked into an immobilizing "death spiral" of dwelling on just how badly I want to not be on this planet
My experience is "pills that make you think less often about how much you hate it."
Fuck. That would be so nice right now.
Yes, but if you where medicated you might have the means to create that society. Not alone obviously.
The best I can do is some soma to help you in this Brave New World.
I’m in if you also invite me to your mandatory orgy
"They're the most expensive placebo I can prescribe"
I herd an interesting theory that such pills and psychology as a whole only exists cos it is economically more efficient to convince people to be OK with their situation
Yes a system corrupted by narcissism also suggests narcissistic solutions like use the gray rock method and meditate or medicate so the narcissist doesn’t have to do any work or change in anyway but you might find them more tolerable to live with for a while.