In response to receiving a self-help quote from a friend.
The problem is, it's all so unnecessary. I felt so liberated when I was off of Effexor just a month ago. Then I had a really bad day and I went back on the drug. But had laughing gas or coca or opium been available to me (and not outlawed based on fearmongering) I would have gotten thru that patch and continued drug-free.
So, I appreciate all the advice of the Brene Browns of the world, but for me they are what the poet Shelley called "frail spells" when confronting the problems of depression and antidepressants.
In fact, I would claim that the entire self-help field is a product of the Drug War because it outlaws everything that works, psychologically speaking. Self-help authors are then reduced to the expedient of describing how a sane person would behave, in the hopes that their readers will be able to translate those words into feelings. This can help, but from my impatient point of view, such help is a "frail spell" - and irritating, too, because almost none of these authors realize - let alone point out - that we have outlawed all the drugs (extant and potential) that could help us achieve these goals, something that their Christian Science biases seem to reject up front.
Meanwhile materialist researchers completely ignore the power of psychological common sense. They do not care that laughing gas would make me laugh -- they do not care that coca would lift me up -- they do not care that opium would give me pleasant dreams. They see no benefits in those things. They are, in fact, blind to everything that would truly help me, as they search under their microscopes for a "real" cure -- which is just a metaphysical search for a sort of holy grail of materialist morality. This understanding of the world has been cemented into the American mind by the sheer money that it has generated for the medical industry, and so it's hard to get a fair hearing, because almost everyone involved owes their very career to the materialist mindset.
Marcus Aurelius had plenty of great things to say about living successfully with oneself -- and it's comforting to read them, something that I did on a daily basis for years. However, he was a big fan of opium, too, and I dare say I might have written some such thoughts were I able to indulge on occasion in that drug, which, despite drug-war dogma, CAN be used safely -- and I believe should be a legal alternative to daily antidepressant use. It would not just be the opium that would help me - but the looking forward to nightly use, as the drinker looks forward to their beer. It's the therapeutic power of anticipation, something that materialist science does not seem to recognize. I see no moral difference between daily opium use and daily antidepressant use - and in fact the former is time-honored while the latter is a modern invention based on the materialist dogma of targeted neurochemical intervention.
In a sane world that recognizes psychological common sense, a vast array of psychoactive drugs could be used strategically on an as-needed basis, such that dependence would not be acquired, unless actually desired.
If the previous paragraphs sound absurd, it is only because Americans (and the world) have accepted a bunch of lies and assumptions as facts thanks to Drug War propaganda - above all, the propaganda of censorship, thanks to which we are not allowed to read or see anything that shows "drugs" in a good light.
But I very much appreciate your concern. Thanks!
I think you raise a good point about lowering one's expectations, however. One does not have to change the world but to simply do their part and should try to be satisfied with that. My part, as I see it, is to try to spread the word about the poisonous tendrils of the Drug War, which has destroyed the 4th amendment, outlawed free speech about drugs, and suppressed religions based on spiritual states. I do this by writing essays and by sending snail mail correspondence to the movers-and-shakers in the psychiatric, philosophical and psychological realms, in the hope of having someone at last say, "Aha!"
One of the reasons the Drug War is tolerated is because the victims suffer in silence, countless millions around the world living with unnecessary grief and pain because politicians have conspired with materialists to outlaw a whole pharmacy's worth of psychoactive drugs in advance, a totally anti-scientific and inhumane situation.
Thanks again.
Brian
Materialism
Materialist scientists collaborate with the drug war by refusing to see glaringly obvious drug benefits. They acknowledge only those benefits that they believe are visible under a microscope. The Hindu religion would not exist today had materialist scientists held soma to such a standard. But that's the absurd pass to which prohibition eventually brings us: scientists are put in charge of deciding whether we are allowed to imagine new religions or not.
At best, antidepressants make depression bearable. We need not settle for such drugs, especially when they are notorious for causing dependence. There are many drugs that elate and inspire. It is both cruel and criminal to outlaw them.
America created a whole negative morality around "drugs" starting in 1914. "Users" became fiends and were as helpless as a Christian sinner -- in need of grace from a higher power. Before prohibition, these "fiends" were habitues, no worse than Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson.
We should hold the DEA criminally responsible for withholding spirit-lifting drugs from the depressed. Responsible for what, you ask? For suicides and lobotomies, for starters.
"If England [were to] revert to pre-war conditions, when any responsible person, by signing his name in a book, could buy drugs at a fair profit on cost price... the whole underground traffic would disappear like a bad dream." -- Aleister Crowley
What bothers me about AI is that everyone's so excited to see what computers can do, while no one's excited to see what the human mind can do, since we refuse to improve it with mind-enhancing drugs.
"Dope Sick"? "Prohibition Sick" is more like it. The very term "dope" connotes imperialism, racism and xenophobia, given that all tribal cultures have used "drugs" for various purposes. "Dope? Junk?" It's hard to imagine a more intolerant, dismissive and judgmental terminology.
As great as it is, "Synthetic Panics" by Philip Jenkins was only tolerated by academia because it did not mention drugs in the title and it contains no explicit opinions about drugs. As a result, many drug law reformers still don't know the book exists.
First we outlaw all drugs that could help; then we complain that some people have 'TREATMENT-RESISTANT DEPRESSION'. What? No. What they really "have" is an inability to thrive because of our idiotic drug laws.
3:51 PM ยท Jul 15, 2024
This is why "rock stars" use drugs: not just for performance anxiety (which, BTW, is a completely UNDERSTANDABLE reason for drug use), but because they want to fully experience the music, even tho' they may be currently short on money and being hassled by creditors, etc.
Even when laudanum was legal in the UK, pharmacists were serving as moral adjudicators, deciding for whom they should fill such prescriptions. That's not a pharmacist's role. We need an ABC-like set-up in which the cashier does not pry into my motives for buying a substance.
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