Also "cures" based on this Skinner box idea of "do whatever makes the brain scan go back to normal" are always Band-Aid cures These scans treat the brain like a black box and tell you nothing about the underlying processes, it's not the science fiction thing they pretend it is https://t.co/UCCJs8OAnE
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Say a 1960s housewife is miserable with her life but constantly trying to hide it, and has periodic uncontrollable outbursts of "hysterical emotion" You can "return her brain state to normal" pretty easily by just feeding her quaaludes But you can't just keep on doing it
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Turns out that those mysterious inner processes that cause these hysterical outbursts tend to intensify over time, and the drugs stop working quite as well, and the more of them you have to take the more pronounced the side effects become
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(Seriously though it's kind of shocking how if you read old books from the 60s and 70s how normalized housewives taking "pep pills" and "tranquilizers" to manage their energy levels was And how the fallout from what quaaludes actually do led to them being banned)
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Look I'm extremely pro-pharma and pro-taking whatever chemicals, licit or illicit, you need to make it through the day and live your life But don't delude yourself about what you're doing when you're doing it
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The idea that the brain has a "normal" state that you can "break the spell" and snap back into once you remove the toxic external influence is a strong irrational bias people have about psychology Sometimes it makes people too anti-drug and sometimes it makes them too pro-drug
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Mood-altering drugs are a blunt instrument like back when censorship filters tried to block porn by just blocking images showing too much human skin tone
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A photo of two naked people having sex doesn't become not-porn if you slap a Photoshop filter on it to make them green You don't stop actually hating your abusive dad because they gave you beta blockers that let you stop thinking about it all the time
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And a dysphoric trans person doesn't become cis because they got buzzed enough that it doesn't bother them right now Many trans people are pretty damn familiar already with self-medicating for dysphoria without needing new breakthrough drugs for the purpose
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(Now I'm thinking about the reveal in BIT that the "cure for vampirism" was just a bottle of booze the whole time
Cc @autogynamelia)
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