User talk:Jaredscribe/Biology of mental illness

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From the wikipedia page and section you link at the top, "the pathological basis of almost all mental disorders remains as unknown today as it was in 1886". This is pretty difficult to believe, considering the vast amount of behavioral, psychological and biological research that has gone into it. Really? We've made no progress on that front whatsoever? The definition of "mental illness" seems to have broadened greatly since that time as well, so the statement is perhaps a bit misleading. I would guess that the rat utopia experiments are probably in the ballpark. What are your thoughts about that model? I'll even go out on a limb and assert that "mental illness" is frequently obscured or nebulously broadened in order to pathologize this 'natural' response to the combined set of impositions and general lack of liberty one must suffer in the 21st century, i.e. "it's not our fault, you're just defective in the head." I'm sure the pharmaceutical industry is responsible in no small part for so many people taking SSRIs, but this seems perhaps beside or only part of the point. Why are so many people miserable in the first place? SSRIs arguably do improve depression. There are countless studies that show this is the case. Yet the question that comes to mind is not the role of the seratonin system or other various subsystems of the brain, but social factors. People are lorded over and imposed upon and it makes them miserable. Not very long ago, one could simply build a dwelling or farm on any unoccupied land and take up residence wherever they damned well pleased. The state did not enforce law or carry out punishments, yet people somehow got by anyway. The village was a social unit and not real estate. I'm not making an argument for anarchism, but that quote and statements like it seem to ignore the elephant in the room. Debasement and imposition was resisted by force in the past, and one more or less knew who was attempting to impose upon them. Today a person is miserable and has no idea why. They are certainly being imposed upon and debased, not by a man with a spear or a feudal lord, but by a think tank tank or policymaker or banker who writes the nonsense we're subject to and passes it along to be enshrined in law, broadcast via mass media, or otherwise somehow put upon the entirety of the middle class. It's a wonder more people don't go postal. Yet perhaps the worst thing one could do is to become used to it, to become comfortable with such a debauched status quo. SSRIs seem to achieve just that. AP295 (discuss • contribs) 21:01, 30 November 2023 (UTC)