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Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:21:24 UTC No. 16454513
I will never respect the opinions of people who immediately discredit substances just because they are sold by pharmaceutical companies that sometimes happen to be unethical. I will never respect people who bitch about "ALL prescriptions = le bad or something" just because they had or heard of a bad experience because the patient didn't fucking learn about what they're putting in their body and put 0 effort into mitigating their risks. I will NEVER respect people who tell me "duuude microdosing LSD is awesome I feel sooo different and more clear" but the moment I tell them a low dose of SSRIs can essentially do the same fucking thing they'll just avoid the idea. Saying "pharmaceuticals are evil" is AS retarded as saying guns are evil; people are evil, respectively. Why is it so fucking hard for these people to understand this? Am I the one being retarded or are they?
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:43:59 UTC No. 16454526
>>16454513
>moment I tell them a low dose of SSRIs can essentially do the same fucking thing
At prescription doses SSRIs are mostly just placebo. You need to be megadosing (>200mg) them to get any 'psychedelic' effects, but even then it's very different. Psychedelics stimulate low-level sensory cortices by mimicking serotonin in these regions, leading to their hallucinogenic, and 'spiritual' properties. Whereas SSRIs exert there effects in the forebrain and midbrain where serotonin inhibits dopamine, leading to emotional numbness. However high doses of SSRIs can have a sensory-stimulatory effect of 'visual snow', which can even be permanent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:47:47 UTC No. 16454528
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:06:17 UTC No. 16454541
>>16454513
>Am I the one being retarded or are they?
I have two vaguely intelligent things to say:
1. Medical staff are extremely ritualistic and I'm not going to fault them for that. I'm sympathetic to the idea that you don't want to try anything new for risk of being misinterpreted, being held accountable for someone's death (or injury), or just flat out being sued.
I'm also aware that we don't live in the reality where people everyone has access to 'personalized medicine'. We often have to accept the "by the book" methods because those are the ones we can actually afford to do.
2. If you want to know the public's 'actual' feelings about drugs: it's Ozempic. People aren't actually 'scared' of drugs; they're just making very difficult calculated "risk vs benefit" decisions in their mind with very little (or no) medical information. Branding is everything, but so is convenience and immediately quantifiable results.
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:57:24 UTC No. 16455409
>>16454526
>At prescription doses SSRIs are mostly just placebo.
Bait used to be fucking believable lol. Send proof or gtfo
Anonymous at Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:05:02 UTC No. 16455415
>>16454513
The onus is on the pharmaceutical companies to prove their claims, which they don't. Even in the best case scenario, they by-and-large write inaccessible studies that no layman can understand. Then they go into marketing with the goal of being as close to snakeoil shilling as possible, for effect of maximizing sales.
Anonymous at Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:44:51 UTC No. 16457216
>>16454513
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