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Default Re: Antidepressants and artificial happiness

From my own experience with psych wards, the majority of ambulant patients are indeed victims of 'silly' lifestyle problems, caused by two things: partly that people in Denmark live in a state of illusion of safety, as they are used to living in a society where nothing can go wrong - if you lose your job, you'll get public amnesty; you break an arm, you'll get it fixed for free; someone spills hot coffe on you, you'll get invalidation benefits for the rest of your life, and so on. But when people become lonely or depressed, there is no one single answer that will help you. And the majority of Danes in our society do jobs that are prone to make you feel depressed - as some people here say: in Denmark, taxes redistribute the income of the 80% middle class of the public to the same 80% of the public - the same applies to a large part of the workforce. Everyone here does a job that essentially amounts to redistributing wealth or doing largely useless services, i.e. rubbing each other's backs. I strongly believe that a man who cannot see any real product of his work, is prone to depression from it.
That, and, of course, the religious question...
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