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Anybody else ever wonder why depression rates in humans seem to have historically coincided with advancements in technology and welfare? Access to resources, food accessibility, shelter, etc? This even applies trans-nationally; developed countries are more depressed than less developed nations despite having a higher standard of living. Why is that? Depression and anxiety are particularly on the rise consistently which can't be said about neurodivergence (ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, etc) which are more concretely genetic, meanwhile SSRIs fail to surpass placebo when treating sub clinical depression despite being prescribed by the bucket for sub clinical depression
I think the answer is deeper than Jewish Healthcare and insurance companies that wanna pilfer their lab chemicals for shekels
The human brain is just not meant to be happy in my opinion. Your mental state of equilibrium was never meant to stagnate IN pleasure or subsist it for any meaningful period of time. Pleasure lasts for so fucking little. A fleeting moment and your brain is back to baseline. Eating your favorite food, having sex, anything that brings you pleasure will in turn spike your prolactin and antagonize dopamine and you're back to feeling flat. Even if you attempt to artificially elevate norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, etc for longer than those mere seconds your brain was designed to grant you, you can self induce neuron death in a matter of weeks/days. You begin to disrupt your brain's homeostasis and communication neural networks and your brain starts to literally destroy itself to get back to some form of equilibrium in tonic neurotransmitter through downregulation of receptor quantity/sensitivity. It's why opiate overdoses exist to begin with. If your brain was okay with itself being flooded with pleasurable chemicals, it would never acclimate to a dose and it would enjoy the same dose over and over. After a certain point, crackheads reach a dose that shuts down their organs, all in pursuit of increasing the pleasure threshold of the previous experience...
You can give yourself neurotoxcitity with drugs as accessible as Adderall if you go above the therapeutic doses chronically.
It's almost as if your brain doesn't want you to feel good?!
There are so many accounts of people accomplishing incredible feats like becoming elected presidents, graduating, inventing or discovering something groundbreaking, climbing a mountain, etc, feeling a short-lived pleasure and excitement for like 24 hours, and then flat-lining and feeling extremely empty on the inside. Almost like all of the buildup and excitement that lead to this culmination wasn't worth it. Sort of like your brain overestimated how pleasurable it would be?
We are legit shackled fucking rats. It makes me cage so hard when people say we have free will. You're a lab rat acting purely on impetus. Pleasure is your primary impetus and it's just a means to an end that is in no way relevant to your human experience. Passing down your sort of unique nucleotide combination to people you will never meet or be remembered by after a handful of decades. Your brain drives you to do these things, as damaging as they could be (overeating, pleasure seeking behavior, drinking, fucking diseased black women, etc) with no conscious pr cerebral regard to their consequences. Like a cat chasing a razor, but being uninterested when the laser stops moving; it's all about the chase.
How do you have any form of free will if the entire apparatus you live inside and the entire framework of your human existence, that you're not only forced to operate within, but you're physiologically FORCED to obey (fear danger, seek food and sex) is completely removed from your control?
All of the stress you feel on a daily basis haunting you, overthinking things in the past and in the future are vestigial remnants of a chain of reactions that once served the important function of keeping you alive and to snap running when a fucking predator wants to eat your face.
It's like I don't don't control my thoughts. All of my anxieties, as if they're occurring to me by a separate being, and I'm just a spectator.
We need to somehow find a way to completely disregard pleasure and anxiety responses and realize that they're just thoughts and feelings, and are inconsequential most of the time.
I gotta say, Eastern philosophy mogs Western to death. Western philosophies want you to achieve your goal for gain on a perpetual increment. Eastern philosphists teach you to be content with what you already have, which seems to be more compatible with our neurochemistry.
I think the answer is deeper than Jewish Healthcare and insurance companies that wanna pilfer their lab chemicals for shekels
The human brain is just not meant to be happy in my opinion. Your mental state of equilibrium was never meant to stagnate IN pleasure or subsist it for any meaningful period of time. Pleasure lasts for so fucking little. A fleeting moment and your brain is back to baseline. Eating your favorite food, having sex, anything that brings you pleasure will in turn spike your prolactin and antagonize dopamine and you're back to feeling flat. Even if you attempt to artificially elevate norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, etc for longer than those mere seconds your brain was designed to grant you, you can self induce neuron death in a matter of weeks/days. You begin to disrupt your brain's homeostasis and communication neural networks and your brain starts to literally destroy itself to get back to some form of equilibrium in tonic neurotransmitter through downregulation of receptor quantity/sensitivity. It's why opiate overdoses exist to begin with. If your brain was okay with itself being flooded with pleasurable chemicals, it would never acclimate to a dose and it would enjoy the same dose over and over. After a certain point, crackheads reach a dose that shuts down their organs, all in pursuit of increasing the pleasure threshold of the previous experience...
You can give yourself neurotoxcitity with drugs as accessible as Adderall if you go above the therapeutic doses chronically.
It's almost as if your brain doesn't want you to feel good?!
There are so many accounts of people accomplishing incredible feats like becoming elected presidents, graduating, inventing or discovering something groundbreaking, climbing a mountain, etc, feeling a short-lived pleasure and excitement for like 24 hours, and then flat-lining and feeling extremely empty on the inside. Almost like all of the buildup and excitement that lead to this culmination wasn't worth it. Sort of like your brain overestimated how pleasurable it would be?
We are legit shackled fucking rats. It makes me cage so hard when people say we have free will. You're a lab rat acting purely on impetus. Pleasure is your primary impetus and it's just a means to an end that is in no way relevant to your human experience. Passing down your sort of unique nucleotide combination to people you will never meet or be remembered by after a handful of decades. Your brain drives you to do these things, as damaging as they could be (overeating, pleasure seeking behavior, drinking, fucking diseased black women, etc) with no conscious pr cerebral regard to their consequences. Like a cat chasing a razor, but being uninterested when the laser stops moving; it's all about the chase.
How do you have any form of free will if the entire apparatus you live inside and the entire framework of your human existence, that you're not only forced to operate within, but you're physiologically FORCED to obey (fear danger, seek food and sex) is completely removed from your control?
All of the stress you feel on a daily basis haunting you, overthinking things in the past and in the future are vestigial remnants of a chain of reactions that once served the important function of keeping you alive and to snap running when a fucking predator wants to eat your face.
It's like I don't don't control my thoughts. All of my anxieties, as if they're occurring to me by a separate being, and I'm just a spectator.
We need to somehow find a way to completely disregard pleasure and anxiety responses and realize that they're just thoughts and feelings, and are inconsequential most of the time.
I gotta say, Eastern philosophy mogs Western to death. Western philosophies want you to achieve your goal for gain on a perpetual increment. Eastern philosphists teach you to be content with what you already have, which seems to be more compatible with our neurochemistry.
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