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    17 days ago

    I had also bought the standard line that it’s about imbalanced or incorrect brain chemistry, but I’m not sure anymore if that theory holds any water.

    There are a lot of criticisms leveled against it, but I found the book Lost Connections by Johann Hari to be incredibly thought provoking. This was even before I had gone full tankie and read a bit into the links between mental health and capitalism. The tl;dr thesis of Lost Connections is that anti-depressants are cover up the symptoms for a time, but the root of the issue is a broken social structure, for which capitalism is responsible.