Does common sense policy result in better or worse results?

[lightbulb27]

USA has been a drug culture so long, it's marketed so much on the "mind programming devices", it sounds crazy to say something like below [reduce their usage]. Is your country as drugged out as USA?

It may be a shock to a lot of people... that they shouldn't be going to artificial drugs made from oil and prescribed by a trained drug pusher to solve deeper emotional issues. But it will be...

Now if they'd just come up with some low cost solutions people can integrate into their lives... or discover some old ones.

Is the result better... or do we end up with more "crazed depressed dangerous people"? If so, what do we do about them... sell them other drugs, give them other help?

https://www.allsides.com/story/healthcare-rfk-jr-announces-initiatives-reduce-antidepressant-prescriptions

[Lliam]

Kennedy's position makes sense to me. I favor a holistic over allopathic approach - heal the cause rather than addressing the symptoms.

I have long suspected that children and teens were increasingly being diagnosed with mental problems (hyeractivity, inability to concentrate, anger, or whatever) that had nothing to do with their brain chemistry. Psychology has a mental health label for every behavior. Lazy doctors immediately prescribe mind-altering drugs rather than doing the difficult work of determining the real causes of bad behavior or if certain behaviors are even abnormal.

Over the years, doctors have become pushers of dangerous drugs and vaccines rather than health practitioners. It is what they are trained to do. It is profitable for doctors and highly lucrative for the pharmaceutical industry.

The medical industry is called "the field of medicine", not "the field of health".

It is no wonder that people have become increasingly unhealthy since J. D. Rockefeller stamped out the practice of holistic medicine and replaced it with pharmaceuticals.

[lightbulb27]

That's 100% the way I see it and you've added a few things I didn't know for context.
mho on the way unless robot gets to it before me.
It's all about money, not health. We see it in the school system at early grade levels. hopefully this bunch, in spite of their flaws, gets enough time to make a dent in the problem before the others take over again.

[Lliam]

Right on, bro. 👍

[exitseven]

Everyone is taking anti depressants today. When i worked for a K-12 school system I set up software for the school nurses that had a separate module to keep track of ll the drugs tht the students were taking. You watch TV and every other commercial is for some kind of drug..

[lightbulb27]

and it's most all made from oil or natural gas. I don't know if that really matters, but that is really jacked.
Maybe we'll be know as the dumbest generation... following the greatest generation.

[exitseven]

I suspect that there will be a big increase in dementia in the next 20-30 years.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Agape93]

Trust me dude, you want me medicated, otherwise you'll see someone suicidal and dangerous with very little stopping them from doing shit to people.

[lightbulb27]

It's still available... take all you need. We all take drugs just different ones for various purposes.
We basically are "drug" generators...

[Agape93]

That doesn't. make. any sense

[lightbulb27]

I'll try to explain what I think we know. Our brains generate all the chemicals and "drugs" we need. Some of them are locked away until the right "motivation" comes along to release them. Like adrenalin as an example, or the mating/attraction chemicals. All drugs scientists could synthesize, but we make them. Happy drugs also made, if the mind is set right.
That's how buddhist as example can be at peace in a state of misery. Mind over matter so to speak... as example.
It's the "oppression" that has control of us... which is creating "bad" chemicals... which we don't like until free of the oppression.

[goaded]

I'll try to explain what we know. Our bodies generate all the insulin we need. So there's no such thing as diabetes.

Oh, wait.

[Abbycado]

This post makes you sound like you’re on drugs. Rambling….

[lightbulb27]

AI jacked with my question and so I switched it up from original... take from it what you will.

[RavVid]

There is a long data series on hapiness. Though most of the decades women have been substantially happier than men. However in the 1990's women became less happy than men. Depression is not necessarily the opposite of happiness but there has to be some correlation.

Quite possibly now women are studying degrees and working, it is not living up to expectations. A useless college degree doesn't lead to a well off life as assumed etc. Taking orders from a boss may not have been as much fun as expected.

Certainly women appear to suffer from depression more than men.

Happiness shouldn't come from a bottle of pills. It is deeply problematical.

Simple interventions - like making women housewives and mothers again - could just do the trick. It worked once upon a time and could well work again. :)

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

That plot twist from mental health management to tradwives promotion was spectacular !

[RavVid]

@Maybe_Maybe_not Thank you! I thought it was a nice twist.

[lightbulb27]

that housewife thing work for some and not for others. some women have instinct to have kids or they just happen, but they don't want to deal with the young stage. People are taking on too much and women do seem to snap more than men, anyone will crack under excess stress.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

You mean different women want different things? That's much too complicated, we need to fix that.

I suggest we force them all to be housewives again. It's way more practical to handle a population of clones.

[RavVid]

Probably that is close. There is also evidence that women are happiest when their life looks like they are told it should. I agree that women seem to handle stress less well but also they have greater expectations too perhaps, which for most won't happen.

Husbands might think all the stuff they have done for their wife is bankable. But wives seem to look to what he can do in the future and pay scant regard to the past. A lot of women divorce because their husband is boringly stable.

That could be a factor as well in that they want stability and excitement.

Just as they get dissatisfied with a stable but boring husband they might well become dissatisfied with a stable but boring job.

?

[lightbulb27]

@Maybe_Maybe_not forcing women might get some pushback, but if you lure them with chocolate dessert... maybe.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

That pushback should resolve itself with chocolate mousse, I agree

[DonaldDarko]

Fentanyl helps some. Junkie trash even have fuck fentanyl stickers on their cars now. So many of their junkie friends got cured permanently by it. Every time they use now they think about Mr Fentanyl being in what ever it is they're using and how it might be their last time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[goaded]

Maybe increase the minimum wage from a starvation wage for the first time since 2009? Make health care more affordable? Reduce working hours? Then people can actually live their lives without being in fear all the time.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I'm actually intrigued by how your question could connect to the body text that followed

[NathanDavis]

common sense is not that common...