This conversation is confused to begin with because "depression" should really be thought of as a symptom or cluster of symptoms that we think of as one "condition" for convenience's sake There is no one cause of depression, there are many - and some of those CAN be "cured"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
TERFs like to say that depression and dysphoria are "comorbid conditions" when really depression is a symptom of dysphoria, as it is a symptom of so many other things Many people who become paralyzed also become depressed, are those "comorbid conditions"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
When we say "depression" it's often difficult to pick apart what should properly be called "major depressive disorder" and mere "situational depression", because the world sucks and so many people's situations have always been bad But changing situations *does* treat depression
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
It's very, very obvious that unemployment and poverty both cause and greatly exacerbate depression You'd have to be a real shitty therapist to look at someone in that situation and say "Well getting money is beside the point, they need to learn coping strategies for being poor"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
"Why would you suggest giving someone money, a mere *financial* remedy that affects the bank account, for what is clearly a *psychological* disorder affecting the brain?" (And of course plenty of conservative pundits do say shit just like this all the time)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
now i'm having flashbacks to the horror of biomedical ethics and everyone just constantly conflating metaphysical/moral issues concerning what "kind" of condition something is with causal questions about how to create or remove it
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
people are extremely dumb about this, it turns out
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Replying to @perdricof @elliotreed and
I have so little respect for "bioethics" as a discipline There is so much tallying up and taxonomizing various forms of "Eww, icky!" people feel and so little asking why the fuck we should give a shit about those feelings
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
yeah look my evaluation is that bioethics is a theoretically interesting subject with a number of true moral questions, but its practitioners are mostly crap sophists who are extremely smug about their bullshit
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Replying to @perdricof @elliotreed and
If they said the "obvious" and "easy" thing - people should always have the right to any medical interventions they want - the essay would be really short and there'd be no reason to pay them to keep writing it So instead they make up all these reasons to say it's complicated
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Christians, of course, are capable of doing this at quite enormous length but nowadays you can sneak the bioconservatism in there by saying letting people do what they want is "capitalist" or "neoliberal" (TERFs love this play)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Viz the guy in my mentions who's been doing all of the above.
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