If those people think that SSRI induced state is not preferable to depression, they can quit medication. It's their choice.
Given that the SSRI messes with their ability to make motivated self determined choices, they don't have full freedom.
There are also a lot of cases where a person might be forcefully hospitalised.
Part of the idea of having a doctor as an expert is also that the doctor will make choices.
I will take my current condition any day compared to the black, hopeless void that's waiting for me if I don't. That's my choice to make, not yours or big pharma's.
I don't think that anybody here advocates that you shouldn't have the choice.
Given that the SSRI messes with their ability to make motivated self determined choices, they don't have full freedom.
That's a strong claim to make without a shred of evidence.
There are also a lot of cases where a person might be forcefully hospitalised.
Are you saying this shouldn't be done? Do you understand how or why it is done?
Part of the idea of having a doctor as an expert is also that the doctor will make choices.
I think there's this concept of "informed consent". Doctors are expected to make choices, yes, but at no time is the...
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