We know physical pain has a purpose (avoiding injury etc.) but we also recognize that severe, prolonged pain should be treated
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The physical pain system breaks down in the direction of false positive errors - most pain has no functional purpose (to direct behavior)
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actually they treat depression in short (a few week) courses pretty effectively http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15070921 …
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Mental pain! This further alienates me from mankind..
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Absolutely. As my post notes. Also, addiction panic ignores that not all use is abuse - should not be govt bans
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misery seems to function as a "dump stat", other more visible (often more violent) signs of conflict get addressed first
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(thinking: people will always work to alleviate pain, the reason we are miserable has to do with prioritization)
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