The Open Secret About Antidepressants Just Got Opener And Liberals Are Mad About It.

The chemical imbalance theory of mental illness was acknowledged to have only ever been an “urban legend” by even establishment psychiatrists as early as 2011. That was well over a decade ago by now but today, today, liberals are mad that the revelation of psychiatry’s and Big Pharma’s dirty little (open) secret is getting play, if only in the so-called right-wing media, and if only a decade or more after the jig should have rightly been up. According to Levine, and he cites ample evidence to support his statement, no one informed or reputable believed the chemical imbalance theory as of a decade or more ago if they ever believed it at all. So why do people including doctors still believe the urban legend, and more to the point, why are children and adults still being prescribed and still swallowing a chemical treatment for symptoms that do not have a chemical cause?

Well, why indeed. Apparently, despite the lack of empirical evidence that chemical intervention would be expected to, or actually does, ease the symptoms of mental illness, there seems to be anecdotal evidence that Big Pharma psychiatric drugs make some people “feel better” some of the time but what does that mean? Psychologist Bruce Levine has noted that at best, these drugs “take the edge off” the physical and mental effects of oppression similarly to the way recreational drugs and alcohol do the same thing and has asked people to consider whether that is acceptable, particularly with regard to prescribing these essentially recreational (nontherapeutic, habit-forming, side-effect heavy, mind-numbing) drugs to children.

Liberals are all ‘Follow the science!’ until it lines up with what a few right wing commentators say. And until it challenges Big Pharma.

This is what passes for journalism and critical thinking on all sides now. ‘This guy is transphobic, so we can assume his opinion on SSRIs will be incorrect as well.’ Swap out the issues for whatever the topic at hand is.

The chemical lobotomy aspect is exactly why I was coerced to take antidepressants as a kid. To make it easier for the adults around me who couldn’t bother to do the absolute minimum of emotional caretaking.