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[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

RFK is one of those assholes who was depressed, changed his diet and worked out, and that was enough. And he thinks that solution works for everyone. And now he has power.

Fuck anyone that takes my SSRIs away from me. That would actually make me leave the country.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 4 months ago

"Well, have you tried not being sad?"

- my parents

[-] 108@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Being rich also doesn’t hurt

[-] Dimmer@leminal.space 10 points 4 months ago

His brain was eaten by worm, isn’t that how his depression got cured?

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I hate to say it, but you probably can’t. People with diagnosed mental illnesses are often banned by other countries from immigrating.

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[-] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

Forced labor farms for those deemed mentally unfit for society. That’s his solution. Fuck that, fuck him, and fuck the fascist slavery fetish.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Wait? Did he really say that?

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago
[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"I've seen this beautiful model that they have in Italy called San Patrignano, where there are 2,000 kids who work on a large farm in a healing center ... and that's what we need to build here," Kennedy said during a town hall-style appearance on the cable channel NewsNation last year.

According to Kennedy's plan, outlined in interviews and social media posts, Americans experiencing addiction would go to San Patrignano-style camps voluntarily, or they could be pressured or coerced into accepting care, with a threat of incarceration for those who refuse care.

But the San Patrignano program has been controversial and was featured in a 2020 Netflix documentary that included images of people with addiction allegedly being held in shackles or confined in cages. The farm's current leaders have described the documentary as biased and unfair

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

Yes, he's been pushing that for a while

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

Creating an environment of corruption, chaos, hate and suffering. Hurting the majority of people economically, and ripping away hope for the future. Cutting programs that safeguard people, and specifically targeting their access to healthcare. And taking away the medications that help people deal with mental illness.

Sounds like a recipe for causing people to become desperate and decide they have nothing to lose.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 11 points 4 months ago

These people never learned why and how Caucescu got what he got. Can't wait for them to learn first hand!

[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

Putin's nightmare about Gaddafi. Benito Mussolini displayed in the street. Ceaușescu's last moment on video.

Team Luigi needs more branding.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

There's a lot of reports in this thread specifically around the "lazy doctors" and "it's just stress" prescriptions.

This is where reddit would lock the thread and go "too much trouble to moderate." That's never been my personal policy.

But here's the thing... "Lazy" may not be technically correct, but it's been proven over and over again that if you are a woman or a minority or other marginalized group, medical professionals often are not listening to you.

https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/articles/gaslighting-in-womens-health

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3797360/

https://apnews.com/article/racism-healthcare-doctor-survey-disparity-ecdc9d2fe8a59352d9bb8f2e494f5255

[-] Lodane@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

i love the tough talk from all the edgelords saying "yeah wait until you take mine away then i'll be a real problem for you" -- lol they'll just lobotomize you. y'all have no idea what healthcare was like before anti-depressants, huh? you don't get a choice what happens to you after you act out ONCE in public. sure, talk your smack, it feels good... but, personally? i'm scared. my grandma used to get shocks, and that's when we actually had asylums... now we don't. pretty scary stuff, ngl. not enough room in jails for all of us... they'll find other solutions.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

I grew up autistic and had adhd and an anxiety disorder when most people had no idea what those were. My autism wasn't that bad... but the way how people treated it they acted like I was less than human.

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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 4 months ago

I hope to god everyone on antidepressants isn’t about to go through what people with ADHD have been going through for medication access. Ridiculous hoops to jump through, short term prescriptions, doctors treating you like a criminal, and medication shortages have made life miserable for so many people.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 28 points 4 months ago

"Why is everyone so depressed?" - A man who inherited millions of dollars from his famous family.

[-] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I could save them a lot of time and energy, here's all the solutions to things they're "studying".

  1. Highly processed foods and lack of varied diets.
  2. Extremely high healthcare costs that make treatment/cures unreachable.
  3. General distrust of medical professionals due to online guidance being actively harmful for most people.
  4. Long commutes and general shift to online/office work has lead to greater rates of inactivity.
  5. Lack of in person community leads to isolation and mental health issues.
  6. High costs of living, being told your neighbors are your enemies, disinformation in the news making it hard to be informed or knowledgeable, and constant threats to people's lives leading to mental health issues.
  7. People taking ivermectin like it's Elon musk doing ketamine.
[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Agreed on all of it but the WFH point. WFH has helped a ton of people. It's also a net benefit for the environment, human health, financial relief and mental health. Anyone telling you they work better in a office with a 2 hour daily commute in traffic is either middle management or C level. No one wants that shit.

[-] treesapx@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I work out a lot more and eat healthier when I'm WFH. Doesn't come close.

[-] pezhore@infosec.pub 9 points 4 months ago

I read the comment as saying return to the office was leading to sedentary behaviors - which I would believe. My commute is 45 minutes each way in ideal traffic - that's an additional hour and a half of just sitting for days I have to go into the office compared to my work from home days.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

According to the article RFK wants to find the “root causes” of a broad range of conditions, including autism, ADHD, asthma, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis. Sure thing, while the his fellow fucking MAGAts shut down and destroy US medical research and increase deregulations pertaining to the food industry and pollution.

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[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”

Hol up. They've gotten rid of all the people who used to pick fruit in rural areas, and now they want to send arbitrarily diagnosed "addicts" to these rural areas to live for "free".

[-] nickiwest@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I didn't see "free" mentioned anywhere.

My guess is that these "wellness farms" will be just as costly to patients as traditional rehab programs, but at the same time the patients will be expected to do physical labor on the farms.

They'll literally be paying to work there. Isn't that the ultimate end-stage capitalist dream?

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[-] redsparks2025@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

More proof that the inmates have taken over the asylum.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

How many people, taking antidepressants, are gun owners? Yep, shits gonna go down in bad way.

[-] Guidy@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

According to https://gunviolencearchive.org over 50% of every gun death in the USA each year is from suicide. More than half. Nobody gives a shit because while the numbers are staggering, they're not kids in school or people in a theater, mall, or grocery store. They're still dead though.

Gun ranges won't let you rent a gun unless you: 1) Have someone with you 2) Have another gun with you (and clearly you just want to rent their gun to try out a different gun) because they're afraid (almost certainly through experience) that you'll kill yourself.

This nation not only doesn't give a shit, it gives even less of a shit now as seen in this article.

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

“When government researchers follow Kennedy’s orders to study SSRIs, they’ll find reams of research, including long-term studies, that have found that the drugs are safe and non-addictive.“

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Then they will ignore science and do whatever the administration tells them to or they get fired and replaced with someone who will.

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 10 points 4 months ago

I will pry my SSRIs from your cold, dead hands.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You know, people off their meds don't make good choices...

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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

And anti-psychotic medication too.

Does he want a bunch of undiagnosed schizophrenic people coming after him and his fellow maga stooges? Because this is how he gets a bunch of undiagnosed schizophrenic people coming after him.

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[-] Thatkaloopsguy@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

From a guy that looks like he could really use them.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago

This is super cool because my life would fall apart without antidepressants. Can’t wait to suffer more.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The inmates are now running the asylum.

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