This is awfully depressing and defeatist.
Maybe this is true for people already locked into the system (kids, marriage, mortgage, etc) but if you are in a position where you can make some money in an environment where you have even one or two supportive people in your life, you could feasibly save up enough in a relatively short period of time to explore limitless options for treatment or gain a better understand of where your environmental deficits lie. It does NOT have to be nearly as difficult as many people on this forum make it out to be, and I'm speaking as someone who is only just beginning to make marginal progress in my health...
Depressing? Maybe. But only if there is no escape. Defeatist? Why? I said there is a way to balance that and keep it under control. Even Peat said when asked a few times that perfect diet is impossible unless we acknowledge the presence of restrictions in the food choices we have available to us (without going crazy in findings "perfect" food). He also said it is probably not possible to have a "right" or "good" attitude in an authoritarian workplace, which matches my observations/experience. So, recognizing things are bad is probably less pathogenic than utter delusion, which is what the latest incarnations of the psychiatric bible DSM encourages. Finally, he said recently that the most pernicious aspect of our environment is that it has eliminated meaningful choices for many/most people. So, yes it sucks but it can be a stimulus to realize the mainstream version is mostly a scam and start to look for alternatives. In that thread below he also discussed other means of counteracting those stressors, but I think the message is pretty clear - the environment is designed to be toxic to your organism.
Motivation
"...Possibly the most toxic component of our environment is the way the society has been designed, to eliminate meaningful choices for most people. In the experiment of Freund, et al., some mice became more exploratory because of the choices they made, while others' lives became more routinized and limited. Our culture reinforces routinized living. In the absence of opportunities to vary the way you work and live to accord with new knowledge that you gain, the nutritional, hormonal and physical factors have special importance."
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