No, I will not "fuck off". You are using identical "logic" as that used by anti-vaxxers. X happened, then Y happened, therefore X caused Y.

Okay, there may well be a cohort where there is a chemical imbalance, but that's yet to be demonstrated.

That's probably because Effexor (when I hear a name like that I just know I'm being marketed at) is known to be dependency forming. I'm not saying it does nothing: what's being said is that it probably doesn't do what you were told it will do (cure your depression by correcting a chemical imbalance that probably…

Why are there so many people on this thread using the same logic as the anti-vaxxers?

Just generally to everyone in this thread: correlation is not causation. There are umpteen reasons why you might have felt better after taking the drug which have nothing to do with the drug "working" on the basis of a discredited theory.

Correction: you feel better on them than off them. There are several possible reasons for this, ranging from you being part of a cohort where there actually is a chemical imbalance (possible, being worked on, but I'm going to hold off being convinced until I see some convincing results) through to the placebo effect…

Correction: you feel better on them than off them. There are several possible reasons for this, ranging from you being part of a cohort where there actually is a chemical imbalance (possible, being worked on, but I'm going to hold off being convinced until I see some convincing results) through to the placebo effect…

This "given value of work" is the problem.

Oh, as I say, I have no plans or intentions to murder anyone, even a Tory or one of their Atos or DWP henchkillers, however much I might fantasise about it or find it hard to condemn someone who did. I just think there are some interesting legal and moral questions to be addressed.

If they're dead, they're not claiming. The main reason I've hung on is to spite them. That and the fact that philosophically I believe in intrinsic value, not the instrumental value of neoliberalism, where value is counted in terms of profit for the rich.

From the article, one of the biggest ecological concerns about the lake is the chemical fertilisers and so on that are being dumped in the lake water. What the farmers are actually doing is chopping up rafts of water hyacinth, loading them up with mud and silt, and planting on that, then adding the usual cocktail of…

Today's Tories (somewhat different from the Tories of 1843, but just as odious) have been responsible for the systematic persecution of - among many others - those with mental health problems. I mean, vulnerable people are dead.

Reserves. Sorry, I was taking you literally, in the sense of financial reserves. That's one of my aspie traits showing through. I can do metaphor, and often use it, but often need to think about it.

I doubt it, although others have said the same. The social anxiety was triggered by making too many mistakes and getting crap for it. I'm not talking about sexual (or other) assault. I mean missing cues, misinterpreting signals and saying the wrong thing. That's why I ended up looking for a diagnosis. At some point,…

Yes, social welfare is assumed to support you from the point of losing one job and finding another in conditions of full employment. It's not designed for long-term support of the sick and disabled, or the casualties of their system.

In answer to your first question, it certainly helps keep the brain active. There is something about face-to-face contact that humans need, however. This is why I think there is probably a difference between the submarine scenario and, say, locking someone in solitary confinement for three months. Yes, I think I need…

Snort. Rowling sided with the right-wing unionists over Scottish independence. She lost a lot of what respect I had for her at that point.

I think that there is a more insidious aspect to this that the article doesn't consider.

It has the same number of integers as 10.

Three: the others being those well-known modern intellectual powerhouses Liberia and Myanmar.