This news makes me sad.
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Oh jeez, he's talking camps... 
Translation: Prison farms people are forced to go to because someone says they have a problem. This will also help with all the migrant crackdowns because who is going to grow and harvest our food.
Seriously though, after deinstitutionalization we were supposed to build a bunch of community health centers to help people. That never happened, but it should have. This is some perversion of that stolen idea designed to enrich the wealthy.
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This from the same people who told you to inject disinfectant and are actively distancing themselves from international medical consensus.
The inmates are now running the asylum.
Always found it interesting that they put a career environmental lawyer as the head of, checks notes, public health.
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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From a guy that looks like he could really use them.
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.
You mean it's like this in the USA? I'll admit I thought it's some heaven for ADHD people over the ocean with everyone getting amphetamines
Lol... No.
Its almost impossible to get an adult diagnosis, it only changed during covid when they bent the rules and allowed telehealth appointments.
Then once your on it, for like the last 5, maybe more years there has been shortages on amphetamine salts and methylphenidate. One gets a shortage, then quickly it's the next in a cycle.
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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.
The only thing that worked out for him was being rich. Everything else is just an excuse/wishful thinking at best and a lie to be used to manipulate others at worst.
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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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His brain was eaten by worm, isn’t that how his depression got cured?
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.
Can't say about enough, but for me too antidepressants were not very effective (and also with some emotional downsides, I eagerly believe stats about ADs and suicide rates), and physical exercise plus simpler and healthier food (basically minimize sugar) did help me more. However, there might be a reversal here - maybe changes in weather and life events caused slight improvement in my mood first, and then came exercise and healthier food.
In any case this is considered very light depression.
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"Well, have you tried not being sad?"
- my parents
Being rich also doesn’t hurt
He's doing you all a favor. You don't need meds; to cure the depression you just need to get off the bed, have a walk every day and smile more. Right? Right?
smh...
(just in case, /s, it's a shame that we can't tell anymore without announcing it)
You can't tell by just looking at words.
What is his fucking deal? Aren’t millions of people in the US on SSRIs alone? He would need thousands of concentration camps to do what he is wanting
I could save them a lot of time and energy, here's all the solutions to things they're "studying".
- Highly processed foods and lack of varied diets.
- Extremely high healthcare costs that make treatment/cures unreachable.
- General distrust of medical professionals due to online guidance being actively harmful for most people.
- Long commutes and general shift to online/office work has lead to greater rates of inactivity.
- Lack of in person community leads to isolation and mental health issues.
- 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.
- People taking ivermectin like it's Elon musk doing ketamine.
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.
WFH has helped a ton of people.
Could not agree more. Most especially if you have toxic management.
It's so much worse with those kind of people in-person. With remote work you can at least not bump into them in the bathroom/kitchen/hallway, etc., you don't have the time-and-morale-killing "pop-in", you can leave your camera off, turn off incoming video, skip non-essential meetings, etc...it really lowers the impact of having to work with someone you don't like very much and is part of management...
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Work isn't great community, WFH + in person local activities is much better.
As long as those local activities are not related to work or co-workers.
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.
Ah, I was understanding it as it was causing people to be isolated vs being in the office.
I work out a lot more and eat healthier when I'm WFH. Doesn't come close.
This.
Looks like the dewormer didn't finish the job.
Keep taking away reasons for people to live. I'm sure millions of desperate, voiceless victims with nothing left to lose will not backfire for the people in charge at all.