If you can provide a source showing either that a deficiency of medication is the cause of depression, or that medications do cure depression, then I will provide a source.
You made a claim: "medications cannot cure [depression]."
The burden of proof is with you, not with savanaly.
Ask them to. EDIT: I just emailed the article author asking if they'd release the data in a Github repo [1]. Default to action. [1] https://github.com/washingtonpost
[1]. Default to action. There is a maxim worth adopting.
If you can provide a source showing either that a deficiency of medication is the cause of depression, or that medications do cure depression, then I will provide a source.
From personal experience: medication stabilised my last depression 7 years ago. After his stabilisation me and my therapist decreased and finally overcame it using EMDR therapy (very interesting technology by the way). This after 18 years of on-and-off depressions in which unaware of my condition.
"nearly 1 in 4 white women ages 50 to 64 is taking an antidepressant, according to federal health officials." This is the saddest thing. My wife remarked that there was a weird sense of expectancy that if you were a white female of middle age you were expected by your peers to be taking anti-depressants.
Women aren't the demographic with a suicide problem in that age range... But my compassion is gone after the election.
Please, I beg you not to let go of your compassion for human life. These people obviously had troubled lives and went through great amounts of pain. There is a time and a place for debates about gender equality, but I don't feel like it is helping anyone to do it here. With that said I understand your frustration and sincerely wish you well.
So women are now committing suicide at the same rate as men?
No. Men are still dying more than women. But women attempt suicide more often than men. And women have started using more lethal means than they used to. And the combination - more suicide attempts, more lethal methods, is worrying.
Right. The way I look at this, suicide attempts are just the tail, the extreme cases -- even more people are not quite that desperate, are suffering at a level that's only almost unbearable.