Turns out a sedated and anaesthetized and gaslit population is less likely to meaningfully revolt against the structure that oppresses it, who would have guessed!

Even better, the sedatives and anaesthetics cause dependency, so they'll keep paying for more, and they often cause numerous other deletorious health conditions, which they'll need to pay even more to deal with those side effects!

And they'll now also be too physically unhealthy, as well as physically and mentally dependent, and too mentally precarious to do anything other than shrivel up, whimper and die, or maybe go berserk, when industrial civilization collapses and no one can get their meds any more!

The truth is researchers and doctors don’t actually know how effective antidepressants are or why certain types work only for certain people. But recent advances in genomics and personalized medicine are bringing us closer to a better understanding.

https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/women-health/just-how-effective-are-antidepressants-anyway-why-dont-certain-ones-work-for-me/

We don't even know how these things work!

Or why they seem to for some but not others!

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202207/serotonin-imbalance-found-not-be-linked-depression

New research, reviewing huge bodies of scientific evidence, found no direct link between serotonin and depression.

The authors find “no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression or that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations.”

Fuckin' whoops, turns out SSRIs don't actually treat depression at all, meaning we've been giving tens, hundreds? of millions of people uneccessary medical complications in the form of side effects, and any reported mental health improvements were actually from the placebo effect!

In fact, we're still somehow legally allowed to say:

Antidepressants, including SSRIs, remain an effective treatment. We just need to better understand why and how they work.

Even tbough the fundamental 'chemical imbalance' hypothesis that SSRIs are built on has been shown to be bunk!

But its ok, see, here's our 'current best evidence', that SSRIs are indeed an effective treatment, from our article written in 2022.

https://www.cochrane.org/CD007954/DEPRESSN_antidepressants-versus-placebo-for-depression-in-primary-care

Yep, that's right, its a study from 2009!

Which outright statea in the abstract:

Most of the studies were supported by funds from pharmaceutical companies and were of short duration.

See! All fine.

Keep taking your pills.

Withdrawal can be very dangerous.