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Austin Muhs's avatar

I would say it’s complacency, frequency manipulation, and a few other psychological factors playing out. The general public has been crash test dummies for some nefarious nonsense. And for many years....

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Nizami XIII's avatar

Yup. A lot still suckered on the real low frequency stuff of MSM or worse, the Murdoch gutter stuff like GB News in the UK, or cleverer stuff like Piers Morgan, which pretends to be an impartial platform by allowing dissidents a word in edgeways now and then, before giving fascist scum like Nafthali Bennett a free podium to repeat Hamas, tunnels, beheaded babies. They are the Harkonen from Dune. They care nothing for the truth, or fairness or honour. They are utterly cynical. These are the hard post humanists. They are machine.

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Austin Muhs's avatar

It’s strange that throughout history suicide has been present in every era. Hard to imagine an America where people wouldn’t think about offing themselves now frankly. It’s almost like a hobby for teens at this juncture. I was there myself for points but, I do have to imagine a minor chemical imbalance was present as well in this young man. Which is also probably rampant due to a variety of factors. The bottom line is; we can’t stop the crazy town wheel from turning but we can just lead by example here and there. This guy was trying to lead by example himself, but in a very dark way.

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jamenta's avatar

I agree with most of what you've said here - but from what I've read so far - there does not appear to be any strong signs there was an actual brain imbalance at all in Aaron Bushnell. If anything, he appeared more level-headed then most IMO.

There have been some recent scientific studies and I'm too lazy right now to find them - that have exposed just how little anti-depression pharmaceuticals actually work - and there is now very good reason to believe a good percentage of suicides and depression itself has nothing at all to do with "brain imbalance." - but rather with enormous stressful events in a person's life and more importantly, as Carl Jung often pointed out: a lack of meaning in a person's life.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Links to science here:

hemical imbalance theory of depression has been scientifically debunked and discredited 20 years ago. Big Pharma and the paid medical community is the only support for it! Check these out:

Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/27/why-failed-psychiatry-lives-on/

Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/29/do-you-still-believe-in-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-of-mental-illness/

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bill wolfe's avatar

Now you even bring in a scientifically discredited chemical imbalance theory of depression!

GO home. Just stop these ignorant comments.

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martin's avatar

why do you have to imagine a minor chemical imbalance in that young man?

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bill wolfe's avatar

Exactly. And that chemical imbalance theory of depression has been scientifically debunked and discredited 20 years ago. Big Pharma and the paid medical community is the only support for it! Check these out:

Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/27/why-failed-psychiatry-lives-on/

Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/29/do-you-still-believe-in-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-of-mental-illness/

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