jollityfarm:

missthethunder
commented on crashchaoscats’s link “Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?”

I would be all over this, but like I have some weird hormonal stuff just anyway, a strong family history of depression and anxiety, plus obsessive-compulsive tendencies that could actually be called OCD proper. It’s not just feeling sad, and that’s not the only way antidepressants work. Also this guy is not a doctor and doesn’t have any medical experience. Even if it is entirely caused by things outside of my body? Antidepressants and therapy work together. A book my therapist gave me on CBT for OCD talks about medication being the “training wheels” to therapy working. Your life affects your brain, and it needs a push to start changing.

for sure!  but i think his piece is talking about depression exclusively.  i also have ocd, and take medication for it, and the medication helps.  but i think it’s worth holding capitalists accountable for how they’ve contributed to our brains being fuckt.