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John J’onzz's avatar

Will this be viewable after the fact? Love the Substack Live format, but they seem to vanish after broadcast.

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Bonnie Blodgett's avatar

Maybe the biggest scam going is "mental health." We're all suddenly sick, just because we're bummed about silly little things like climate breakdown, the takeover of human by higher-intelligent beings, ever-nearing nuclear war, and the loss of our democracy. Now Big Pharma has found a real vein of gold here. And even as SSRIs and other antidepressants are being exposed as no better than placebos, we still have the head of the American Psychiatry Association telling us how wonderful they are. How expensive they are, is what Big Pharma likes. And yay, insurance covers them! Meanwhile, Big Therapy can be relied on to send "patients" to shrinks whose job is no longer helping people with real and still mysterious psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia, but prescribing meds to perfectly healthy people who happen to be having a bad day. I am not a heartless crank. I've had my own "mental health challenges." At the end of the day, most "mood disorders" are treatable only by a disciplined effort to keep busy and not let your mind stray into dangerous places. This can be done without drugs.

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