Yank moment
Nobody pays for medication outside of Yankland. There is no "market". There's the antithesis of a "market", in that Doctors and hospitals actively don't want to prescribe you shit because they're overburdened with work and patients, they just want you to fuck off.
We've had this exact same discussion before.
First of all, if a doctor is overworked, then of course he'd want to just prescribe you something! He'll give you a jewpill and then tell you to fuck off, instead of actually examining your issues and trying to find out the cause of your problems and all
And no wonder because the cause of these problems, when it comes to depression, won't even be medical in nature! It'll be socio-economic, which the doctor can't even do anything about.
But I disagree with your premise too. Just because your medical industry is nationalized, it does not mean that it is in the interests of doctors to neglect their patients, because the more patients they statistically "treat," the higher their government budget will be!
Hell, in the United States, the criminal justice system is obviously (mostly) nationalized and you can see that it imprisons just about the most people on earth per capita
This is because while the overall government loses money due to a wasteful and bloated criminal justice system, the criminal justice system itself benefits greatly and makes a ton of money from it. This makes police unions and the like very happy!
Considering this, you can make the argument that government bureaucracies are actually
more wasteful than privatized systems. And this is true in many contexts. A private insurance company can certainly be stingy and less willing to pay for treatment than a government which prints the very money that it uses, JFL.
But when it comes to scientific research in particular, that meta analysis you linked is obviously incorporating research that was funded and sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, which BTW do exist in Europe too. Patented medications exist in Europe. It's just that the government pays for them instead of insurance companies.
And anyway, Western Europe is a satellite of the US, so what happens in the US culturally and economically will obviously influence what happens there, even insofar as there are different incentives at play.
You've plucked that figure from the ether. Because reliable data on that doesn't exist.
No, it was from research that I read. Decreased libido is a common side effect of SSRIs, and it makes sense because serotonin is literally a competing neurotransmitter to dopamine, which obviously governs sexual arousal.
You are an extreme anomaly if SSRIs increase your libido, but I have seen someone reporting this before, so it's not impossible.
Remember the unpublished studies I talked about?
The initial labels for all SSRIs when these drugs were launched clinically stated that less than 5% of patients in clinical trials reported sexual dysfunction. But in some unpublished phase 1 trials, over 50% of healthy volunteers had severe sexual dysfunction that in some cases lasted after treatment stopped.
Over 50% becomes less than 5% primarily because in clinical trials investigators have innumerable boxes to tick, almost entirely devoted to the question of whether the drug works, and minimal space and time to record adverse events. They may not, therefore, record a problem, in particular one that can be passed off as a feature of the illness.
Yes, I'm sure it was SSRIs which killed your sex drive. Just like it was the COVID jab which caused your Grandma's death.
I noticed how my libido immediately decreased on SSRIs, and after the third time using them for a prolonged period, it never came back.
Considering the fact that many people report the same thing, I'd say it's highly obvious
what caused this. The only question is
how. SSRIs, in my estimation, caused excessive inflammation and oxidative stress, and there is physical evidence for those reporting PSSD having damaged genital tissues, seemingly due to oxidation.
No. But I don't want to inject heroin to feel what it's like. I remember what wanting to die to relieve the aching sensation in my stomach and constant cry sessions was like, and Sertraline relieves me of that. Medicine is supposed to relieve pain, not be something you're dependent on for joy and happiness in life.
You're literally the only one talking about heroin here. Do you realize that there are safe opioids you can take in a low dose? My other thread contained a study which researched one. That you still didn't read despite responding to it, JFL.
It isn't a coincidence men have higher sex drives and women are more emotional. Testosterone and male hormones are associated with anger, stoicism and a high sex drive. Estrogen and female hormones are associated with neuroticism, weepiness and a dead sex drive. My extreme bouts of depression manifest themselves physically, I get a strong, persistent sensation in my gut and I cry a lot. My sex drive dies and I'm filled with extreme empathy. I function like a woman. It isn't wholly bad, because it provides a different perspective, but Sertraline stops these symptoms within days. This isn't a placebo. The change is too extreme for it to be a placebo.
I believe that SSRIs ameliorated these symptoms for you, but if anything, SSRIs
increase estrogen, so it's not doing what you think hormonally...
All SSRIs relatively increased the estrogen/androgen ratio, indicating stimulating effects on the aromatase.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) used as first line of treatment in major depressive disorder (MDD) are known to exert negative effects on the endocrine system and fertility. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible endocrine disrupting effect of six SSRIs...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It's interesting that you mention empathy and crying though, because psychedelics are known to increase empathy and cause spontaneous crying, and SSRIs are said to function as the inverse of psychedelics.
Certainly, whereas SSRIs numb emotions, psychedelics enhance emotions.
Speaking about that horrible feeling in the gut, psychedelics DEFINITELY exacerbates it for me. When I'm on a psychedelic and about to fall into an inextricable depression, it feels like there's a hole in my soul that I fall into and can't get out of.