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5.0% of adults in the world suffering from depression<ref>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression</ref>. The brain plays crucial roles in promoting survival and reproduction, so the pressures of evolution should have left our brains resistant to such high rates of malfunction. Mental disorders should generally be rare and be getting rarer — ''so why is depression so common and even more growing?'' | |||
[[File:Mountain perspective analogy.png|alt=Mountain perspective analogy|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. Mountain perspective analogy]] | [[File:Mountain perspective analogy.png|alt=Mountain perspective analogy|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. Mountain perspective analogy]] | ||
Depression is a subjective issue with little to no objective parameters, one can only assume that the disease is partly caused by internal biochemistry and external circumstance. | Depression is a subjective issue with little to no objective parameters, one can only assume that the disease is partly caused by internal biochemistry and external circumstance. '''Part of the appeal of the internal biochemistry rationale is its apparent simplicity, efficiency, and exemption from blame, along with the notion that it “optimizes” both patient and treatment. Everyday struggles are recast as “symptoms of ‘real medical conditions.’” Through lowered diagnostic thresholds, those conditions are then pronounced widespread, with virtually everyone considered susceptible. Blame evaporates; the suffering is “caused by neurochemical aberrations that are outside conscious control.” And then the problem is typically rendered as “easily treated,” with drugs presented as “working to correct the underlying somatic malfunction.”''' | ||
Psychopharmacology is the study of how specific substances affect how the brain operates. Humans tend to believe that their decision making and sense of self is constant however, it is well documented that specific blood parameters can have a wide range of effects on our decision making. For instance, fluoxetine a common antidepressant can cause people to become more moral<ref>'''Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion'''. Crockett MJ, Clark L, Hauser MD, Robbins TW. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Oct 5;107(40):17433-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009396107. Epub 2010 Sep 27. PMID: 20876101; PMCID: PMC2951447. Accessed on 22 July 2022 via: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876101/</ref> or even eating before citing judgement causes judges to become more lenient<ref>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2011/04/14/i-think-its-time-we-broke-for-lunch</ref>. Quetiapine can increase risky decision making<ref>Rock, P. L., Harmer, C. J., McTavish, S. F. B., Goodwin, G. M., & Rogers, R. D. (2011). ''The effects of quetiapine on risky decision-making. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, e141.'' doi:10.1097/01.yic.0000405872.33849.22</ref>. Most of these effects are temporary, i.e. once food has been eaten the judges' judgement return to normal, similarly with fluoxetine once it is out of the persons system for 15 days<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8194283/#:~:text=Fluoxetine%20is%20well%20absorbed%20after,has%20a%20nonlinear%20pharmacokinetic%20profile.</ref>. Behavioural changes subside. One class of drugs which shows an incredible ability to change decision making in normal people for the long term are [[psychedelics]]<ref>William McGlothlin , Sidney Cohen & Marcella S. McGlothlin (1970) Long Lasting Effects of LSD on Normals, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 3:1, 20-31, DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1970.10471358</ref>. | Psychopharmacology is the study of how specific substances affect how the brain operates. Humans tend to believe that their decision making and sense of self is constant however, it is well documented that specific blood parameters can have a wide range of effects on our decision making. For instance, fluoxetine a common antidepressant can cause people to become more moral<ref>'''Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion'''. Crockett MJ, Clark L, Hauser MD, Robbins TW. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Oct 5;107(40):17433-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009396107. Epub 2010 Sep 27. PMID: 20876101; PMCID: PMC2951447. Accessed on 22 July 2022 via: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876101/</ref> or even eating before citing judgement causes judges to become more lenient<ref>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2011/04/14/i-think-its-time-we-broke-for-lunch</ref>. Quetiapine can increase risky decision making<ref>Rock, P. L., Harmer, C. J., McTavish, S. F. B., Goodwin, G. M., & Rogers, R. D. (2011). ''The effects of quetiapine on risky decision-making. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, e141.'' doi:10.1097/01.yic.0000405872.33849.22</ref>. Most of these effects are temporary, i.e. once food has been eaten the judges' judgement return to normal, similarly with fluoxetine once it is out of the persons system for 15 days<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8194283/#:~:text=Fluoxetine%20is%20well%20absorbed%20after,has%20a%20nonlinear%20pharmacokinetic%20profile.</ref>. Behavioural changes subside. One class of drugs which shows an incredible ability to change decision making in normal people for the long term are [[psychedelics]]<ref>William McGlothlin , Sidney Cohen & Marcella S. McGlothlin (1970) Long Lasting Effects of LSD on Normals, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 3:1, 20-31, DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1970.10471358</ref>. | ||
== Cultural Pacification == | == Cultural Pacification == | ||