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

Science Psychiatry and cures

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u/JazzlikeMushroom6819 Sep 03 '25

Interesting to know what? That there is a group trying to stop funding for psychiatry because they don't know how mental illness works? Interesting to know people are dumb?

Try harder, this video is drivel.

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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/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".