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Absolutely amazing progress has been made in treating AIDS. There are medications available now that are able to reduce your viral load to below the limits of detection, you can live a reasonably normal life as someone HIV positive. A small number of people have even been cured. Discrimination within the medical profession is real and a problem, but I have to doubt the sincerity of your concern for marginalized peopl…
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This comment is no different than telling a depressed person "you have no reason to be depressed, so cheer up". Plenty of women with strong support networks get postpartum depression.
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Ah yes. The good ol’ “Well, have you tried not being depressed?” Works every time.
That's not what they're saying at all. They're saying we should make sure expecting mothers are well informed on the effects pregnancy and birth has on their body. Not give them unrealistic expectations that pregnancy will be easy and that everything will go back to being the same after they give birth. A miss match in expectations can help drive someone into depression. Prevention by supporting new mother's. I think…
That's exactly what they are saying. "If these women just had more support they wouldn't be depressed".
That's not how postpartum depression works at all.
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My wife is scared shitless of postpartum depression. People don't think of it as a problem because it's a "woman issue" and not a big deal. Coupled with the medical profession being notorious for discounting black womens' issues, I don't blame her for being scared. We'll be first in line for getting the pill if she needs it.
I’m in a week between family staying with me right now and I had to pull from savings to get a night nanny every other night to even have a chance for sleep.
Make a plan for help, don’t be afraid to cash in on help you’ve given your friends and family, and get treatment early.
edit: I’m a US Marine. I’m not scared of sleep deprivation, hard work, or suffering. How single moms do this without PPD, let alone with, while holding a job is something I can’t fathom. I thought I was tough. Incorrect.
why is this drug specific to PP depression? Would it work for typical, general depression in both sexes?
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/sage-biogens-postpartum-...
> Alongside Friday’s approval, the partners also received a rejection for Zurzuvae in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD). The FDA told the partners their application didn’t provide “substantial evidence of effectiveness” and that additional studies would be needed. Sage and Biogen said they are reviewing possible next steps.
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Of all the things that seem wrong with solving this with a pill, I think this is the single most grotesquely negligent element of this approval. Is the FDA immune from suits if this results in a generation of damaged kids? Was it so hard to say "oh..... It ends up in breast milk. We should compare the kids"? Even if it defers the approval by some years?
And there is nothing wrong or negligent about “solving this with a pill.” It needs solving. It is a serious issue.
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Absolutely amazing progress has been made in treating AIDS. There are medications available now that are able to reduce your viral load to below the limits of detection, you can live a reasonably normal life as someone HIV positive. A small number of people have even been cured. Discrimination within the medical profession is real and a problem, but I have to doubt the sincerity of your concern for marginalized peopl…
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If your best rebuttal is to put words in my mouth and frame my criticism as censorious, it's time to reevaluate. It's a form of motte-and-bailey argument, you've abandoned your position that no breakthroughs have been made in the treatment of HIV in order to defend something more vague and less falsifiable ("the FDA is authoritarian"). You can choose to either consider whether your position was flawed (my recommendation in this case) or to discard your arguments and find better ones, but if you can't defend your position, there's a problem with your argumentation.