Speaking as someone who has major depressive disorder, we are slaves to the hormones in our brains. You can’t think your way out of a broken emotional response. You either ride it out and live long enough to get on medication, or you don’t. It’s just as serious, and as deadly, as diabetes or heart failure in some people.
Like avoiding sugar when you are diabetic, people with severe mental illnesses should avoid chatbots. Unfortunately, neither sugar nor chatbots are regulated, because both are subtly addictive to a normal person and deadly to an ill person.
Prozac was supposed to be “like insulin for diabetics” because serotonin-defiiciency caused depression. But later research showed that serotonin has no relationship to depression and that most anti-depressants do little better than an ACTIVE placebo.
Thyroid problems can cause symptoms of depression, though.
Speaking as someone who has major depressive disorder, we are slaves to the hormones in our brains. You can’t think your way out of a broken emotional response. You either ride it out and live long enough to get on medication, or you don’t. It’s just as serious, and as deadly, as diabetes or heart failure in some people.
Like avoiding sugar when you are diabetic, people with severe mental illnesses should avoid chatbots. Unfortunately, neither sugar nor chatbots are regulated, because both are subtly addictive to a normal person and deadly to an ill person.
Prozac was supposed to be “like insulin for diabetics” because serotonin-defiiciency caused depression. But later research showed that serotonin has no relationship to depression and that most anti-depressants do little better than an ACTIVE placebo.
Thyroid problems can cause symptoms of depression, though.