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why cant science figure out exactly what causes depression or how to definitively cure it?

>> No.15922396

>>15922270
Because most depressed people are justified in their negative beliefs. It's as shrimple as that.

>> No.15922456

>>15922396
okay but what if its unjustified/unreasonable

>> No.15922464

>>15922270
Because it's probably a series of things and not just a single thing. And probably because there's already large number of medications on the market for the purpose of treating depression. Stepping on toes and fucking with pharmaceutical profits probably wouldn't fly too well.

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>>15922270
Because they don’t want the cure. The cure is to reject modernity and touch grass.

>> No.15922504

>>15922270
because it's caused by unfettered capitalism and preventing mental illness would require massive challenges to the status quo.

>> No.15922508

>>15922466
But grass is a trap of modernity, you should have a garden, not a lawn, touch fresh lettuce.

>> No.15922531

>>15922456
then they probably have an inflammation problem or a persistent but lowkey infection.

>> No.15922556

>>15922270
Eating >10 grams of gluten for couple of consecutive days gives me noticeable depression.

>> No.15922883

>>15922270
If just 100 different things wouldn't be called depression it would be great.

>> No.15922909

>>15922556
I've noticed the same thing.
>Pizza
>Hamburger
>Sandwich
>Basically bread
>Pasta
Really fucks me up. I don't know why gluten containing foods are as popular as they are.

>> No.15922915

>>15922270
False premise. Curing depression is simple, it's just extremely expensive to optimize society for general happiness. Science's goal isn't and never has been to cure depression, it's to optimize the profitability of treating depression.

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>>15922915
i want to be smart like you.

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15923037

Look at happy images.

>> No.15923042

>>15922909
You have celiac

>> No.15923053

>>15923029
It's just linear algebra, brother.

>> No.15923194

>>15922270
>what causes depression
Your living conditions cause depression, how do you expect science to fix it?

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>>15922270

>> No.15923207

>>15922270
because if the could they wouldn't want to, how else are they supposed to sell you their anti-depressant medication

>> No.15923365

Because it's difficult to distinguish between people who have genuine neruochemical imbalances (and if so, what they are), people who have other diseases that are making them just generally feel like shit, and people who are depressed because they're actually just sad.

>> No.15923627

>>15922270
It's society.

>> No.15923783

>>15923365
>genuine neruochemical imbalances
You might as well say "genuine demonic possession." There's at least as much evidence for it and, unlike neurochemical imbalance, it has the benefit that the specialists in the relevant field don't forthrightly admit that it's bullshit.