Oil doesn’t fix alignment of gears. Ideally, you need to precisely go in and realign the exact gear. But we don’t have that power. So we’re throwing rocks.
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Tvkan@feddit.de 5 months agoThat’s a good metaphor! I’m not sure about the rock though, throwing a rock into a complicated machine doesn’t seem like the best idea. I’d consider replacing it with oil, where it needs to cover the gears at the top first before it can drip down.
candybrie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s the point of the metaphor. The SSRI is the rock. We’re not exactly sure how it’s gonna land, or what it’s total effects are, but it’s the tool we have and it’s the one we’re using.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 months ago
SSRIs are the most effective means we have in terms of medication. That doesn’t mean that they’re the solution. They’re a short term stop gap. The changing of routines and everything that goes on in appointments with psychologists is supposed to be the oil. Many times however that oil isn’t used.
dzervas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
it’s the best thing we’ve got. and honestly, it ain’t that bad
personally the first week it fucked me up but after that, life changing effects. truly life changing.
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
puts conspiracy hat on
but having a proper solution would make selling meds for a long time harder!
weed has many medicinal effects, and yet it’s illegal in most places
LSD has many medicinal effects, and yet it’s not even allowed to be studied in most places! There’s so many stories out there saying how psychedelics outright cured someone’s depression or anxiety, but no proper in depth studies on them.
I think it’s because nobody is really looking for a cure, well, I bet a lot of doctors are but sadly they depend on funding & legality of their research. The only way for them to do any studies is to get money from the money men & a permission from the goverment (also ruled by the money men), and since they’re trying to look into claims like “one dose of this cheap to make drug cured me of depression!” then the best business decision is to say “fuck off”
dzervas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
while what you say totally stands in capitalism, lsd and weed are probably quite bad ideas.
i think.
Overland@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some doctor told my dad a while ago that he felt like we weren’t that far off from physically poking around in a mind and hoping that we fixed it- or that we’re closer to that than understanding it.
It’s an old and second hand story. I do appreciate the idea though that we’ve found ways to disrupt the mind that can be beneficial, but that we’re not at the level of being able to do more than throw a cog in the works in a general direction.
For me it makes it easier to accept when the first - or second thing does work. We’re just trying things. It’s not like we know what is gonna unclog the works.
This is getting pretty deep into a metaphor. Sorry