I'll start. Fahrenheit is the superior temperature system for weather reporting. We should use metric for literally everything else, even Celsius for cooking, but I'll be dead in the cold ground before I abandon a system in which you actually get to experience both 0 degrees and 100 degrees. Freezing being 32 instead of 0 is literally the only downside, and it's not a hard number to remember. I'm prepared to die on this hill in the comments.
The vast majority of mental illnesses are caused by trauma. Our entire society is fundamentally trauma-engendering because many of our primary life-or-death drives center around life in a tribe, and we have decimated our number and quality of social relations as well as our connection to meaningful communal labor. This concept of trauma-induced illness has been actively suppressed in psychology literally since Freud and still is today (see: why CPTSD is not in the DSM-V). If the human race continues to advance scientifically, modern day psychiatric care with its myopic emphasis on mysterious "chemical imbalances" will eventually be considered as barbaric as the use of asylums.
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Wow you explained something I've always agreed with but never understood enough to word so eloquently. I'm depressed caused my early life trauma. Thankfully my therapist is really good, and hasn't even uttered the words anti-depressents in the 2+ years I've gone there. Facing your trauma head on and defusing it has worked immensely well for me.
My unpopular opinion in response to yours: the weaponization of therapeutic language is a giant hindrance on American culture. "Conflict is not Abuse" was written for a reason.
Basically, the language of therapy has been expropriated so that no one has to engage in growth, because we can all throw up our hands and say "it's all trauma, no one has to change", and we are powerless in the face of our pasts.
for all the talk of chemical imbalances, very little of my experience with medications for mental illness has seemed to be very scientific. i found out that there's a possible alternative to DSM, but it doesn't look like it will get funded because it requires actual scientific observation of the brain as an organ and other things that sound like hard work.
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