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In reply to the discussion: ‘1776 Will Commence Again If You Try to Take Our Firearms!’: Watch Alex Jones Lose His Mind on Piers [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)flu shots? Vaccines.
People make a point of trying to degitimize treatment for mental illness because 1) they don't understand the diseases, and 2) they don't see them as real, and 3) societal prejudice against the mentally ill.
This Alex character is a nut case, which is not a mental illness. It's a function of our bizarre culture that someone like this has a voice. And my comment was an unfortunate joke. But I fully resent this ongoing effort to stigmatize valid, and evidence-based mental health treatment. Millions of people are functioning today because of drugs like anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. Their lives may not matter to you, but they matter a lot to me. I myself wouldn't be alive without such medication.
That doesn't mean that everyone is prescribed such drugs properly or that children should have to be medicated to attend school. But psychiatric drugs are as valid and necessary as any other life saving medication, whether for AIDs, diphtheria, etc.. .