Ordinary Banana

Imagine if medicine valued the absence of negative affect as seriously as it values the absence of death

isn't that more the domain of psychology/psychiatry

yeah I wish that branch of medicine was 1/100th as effective as like, emergency medicine

it can't be helped. the brain is really damn complicated and we don't really know how it works yet. my understanding of the situation is that we don't know why psych meds do/don't work and we are basically taking wild shots in the dark atm

my understanding of the situation is anything that works is automatically illegal because of drug war

i do think it would be good to do further study on drugs we have outlawed, perhaps overly hastily. but just because something makes you "feel good" in the short term doesn't necessarily mean it's good for you in the long term. that goes for drugs that are both legal and illegal

also, it might be better to treat the underlying reasons why so many people are "feeling bad" in present times. i'm pretty sure it's rare that people feel bad for no reason (i.e. their brain chemistry is simply randomly fucked up or they are predisposed to depression genetically)