So, I've been thinking a lot about SSRIs lately thanks to the posts on @haidut blog and some of the posts on this forum. I'm also a big fan of Jordan Peterson, so of course I've heard his spiel on serotonin in lobsters being associated with societal status. Where, societal status also increases the production of serotonin. I'm sure there is significant strength to this idea, I've already seen people's personalities change as they get more and more powerful societally. I'm already fairly convinced that a lot of the mass hypnosis and insanity that has been going on is related to the fact that a significant portion of the population is cracked out on these SSRIs already. It makes perfect sense from what we know about the effects of SSRIs, right? They increase susceptibility and also aggressive behaviour, due to higher serotonin being associated with these attributes.
However, I've been wondering if this is also partially due to it being a sort of "fake" hack, which is not accompanied by other chemicals that are normally increased with societal status too. It seems to me that a lot of people that "benefit" from SSRIs also be the ones that happen to be "low" in society, or at least perceive themselves to be low in society or their particular social circle. When you bypass this natural condition by using an SSRI, it seems unsurprising that it may be missing some "cofactors". I wonder if this is a large cause of the issues with them.
I mean, a lot of these billionaires etc would in theory have a ton of serotonin floating around but then again, it is "earned" societally, to some extent. Of course, we also see that a lot of them have elevated self-worth and potential "god complexes", like the top of society always thinking that they know what's better for the majority than what the majority want and trying to enforce that on them through their wealth via lobbying, etc. Not all of them suffer this of course, there are plenty that are quite rich but pretty hands off, they don't really care what happens to anyone else as they have core principles of what I'd call a sort of libertarianism - i.e I may think you're lifestyle choices are stupid and your failures are largely your fault but I'm happy for you to do it yourself just stay out of my ***t. Then you have the other side, where they essentially believe the same thing but then want to do everything in their power to legislate it to be the one that fixes the world's problems by force. Bit off topic anyway.
I've been just musing about the connection between SSRIs and these people's perceived or real societal status and what forcing their way passed that for this particular reward circuit does to them mentally.
Sorry if wrong section of forum.
However, I've been wondering if this is also partially due to it being a sort of "fake" hack, which is not accompanied by other chemicals that are normally increased with societal status too. It seems to me that a lot of people that "benefit" from SSRIs also be the ones that happen to be "low" in society, or at least perceive themselves to be low in society or their particular social circle. When you bypass this natural condition by using an SSRI, it seems unsurprising that it may be missing some "cofactors". I wonder if this is a large cause of the issues with them.
I mean, a lot of these billionaires etc would in theory have a ton of serotonin floating around but then again, it is "earned" societally, to some extent. Of course, we also see that a lot of them have elevated self-worth and potential "god complexes", like the top of society always thinking that they know what's better for the majority than what the majority want and trying to enforce that on them through their wealth via lobbying, etc. Not all of them suffer this of course, there are plenty that are quite rich but pretty hands off, they don't really care what happens to anyone else as they have core principles of what I'd call a sort of libertarianism - i.e I may think you're lifestyle choices are stupid and your failures are largely your fault but I'm happy for you to do it yourself just stay out of my ***t. Then you have the other side, where they essentially believe the same thing but then want to do everything in their power to legislate it to be the one that fixes the world's problems by force. Bit off topic anyway.
I've been just musing about the connection between SSRIs and these people's perceived or real societal status and what forcing their way passed that for this particular reward circuit does to them mentally.
Sorry if wrong section of forum.
