The solution will be “Just be happy”. This is gonna kill so many people.

RFK is kind of (“kind of” doing a lot of work here) like the guy we need if we didn’t live in a capitalist dystopia.

Like, if we had a a socialist revolution it would be really good to rethink and re-evaluate the use of anti depression medication, adhd medication, etc.

I do think a lot of these medications are over prescribed to deal with the alienation people feel. The “problem” for people with ADHD (myself) having to be forced into a specific task/job that eventually becomes impossible to repeat.

Or actually addressing the material conditions of someone’s life that lead to depression. Like, a gambling addiction is the most likely addiction to lead to suicide. There is clearly more to “depression” than a chemical problem in ones brain. The answer now is “take this pill and get back to work.”

Like, I know he’s a dumb ass. But I can understand why he has a general appeal to a population that is frustrated with the use of medication in our society.

The problems of depression, on the scale we have in the west, are primarily related to these issues of alienation that are a fundamental part of capitalist modes of production. On top of a feeling of isolation as we spend our free time either mindlessly scrolling; or worse, watching the genocides and wars our country enacts.