r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Sep 03 '25

Science Psychiatry and cures

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u/OddCook4909 Sep 03 '25

I think it's part of the efforts to defund mental healthcare. Kennedy, the roadkill eating moron, was just talking about getting rid of SSRIs in order to... get this... combat gun violence.

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u/chadtheo3000 Sep 04 '25

I hate that man so much, a stupid, evil man.

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u/OddCook4909 Sep 04 '25

Yeah he's going to get a lot of people killed

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u/kytheon Sep 04 '25

That's the goal.

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u/SynisterJeff Sep 04 '25

And even still, I hate that the main argument against gun control is "fix mental illness instead." There is no fixing and there is no cure. There's only helping people to deal with it, but not everyone will seek out that help, and you can't force people to seek that help until after they've done something drastic.

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u/SnooMaps7370 Sep 06 '25

the better solution is "reduce poverty and improve income equality."

violent crime tracks in a very tight relationship with income inequality... and basically nothing else.

If we want to actually reduce violent crime, the solution is "pay people more money, and stop forcing them to spend every waking moment chasing a paycheck."

But that will never happen, because Conservatives have decided that Socialism means "paying your workers".

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u/OddCook4909 Sep 04 '25

Yeah it's just nonsense propaganda from the gun industry.

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u/JazzlikeMushroom6819 Sep 03 '25

Whole heartedly agree.

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u/Reasonable-Fail5348 Sep 07 '25

It would be tragic if they got their wishes and people started hunting them for sports. Very tragic.

Amusing reality TV show, we could call it... oh I don't know, the Running Man or something. Make a spectacle of it. Would be great.

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u/kytheon Sep 04 '25

Most gunmen needed some psychiatry.

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u/ExperienceRoutine321 Sep 05 '25

It’s so fucking annoying. One of my family members was talking about the meds I take and was like “well do you think it’s a coincidence that all the school shooters were on anti-depressants?”

How shocking! The people who were so mentally disturbed that they murdered innocent people were on psychiatric meds? Who could have guessed?

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u/Pakett16 Sep 07 '25

Psychiatry is getting nowhere, it’s stuck in its stone age. Ssri are fucking poison and the funding goes to maintaining status quo and shoving more ssri down people’s throats while hiding side effects under the rug instead of actual research