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Assuming mental disorders exist, sure. But there is also evidence that a sufficiently technocratic government will use psychoactive drugs indiscriminately on its population in order to coerce and control them [0][1][2][3]. We must demonstrate somehow that mental disorders not only exist, but that their classification is due to science, and not due to bigotry and a lack of understanding [4][5].

Your example of SSRIs is an especially poor one, as SSRIs are well-understood to have been developed by the pharmaceutical industry as part of a panpsychic wellness package which is meant to be sold pill-by-pill to the public [6][7]. SSRIs today are like sugar in the past [8], with a corporate army of compensated scientists ready to study the noise and find useful results from harmful chemicals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experim...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_S...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_psychology

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Man...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i...

[7] https://twitter.com/jcbonthedl/status/1159823784242753537

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_marketing#Influence_on_h...




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