Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said mental illness may be best treated using "faith-based approaches" as opposed to pharmaceuticals.

He gets so close-

Violent crime has risen over precisely the period we have shuttered these psychiatric institutions. And you know what? The number one psychiatric institution today is jail. It’s prison. And they don’t do a very good job. And now you then get the calls to clear the jails or to have commuting of sentences or shortening of sentences. People leave those jails in a worse psychiatric condition, often, than when they even entered.

Yes! Yes!

We can do this again learning from past mistakes without those abuses. I don’t think I want to be pumping psychiatric institutions with pharmaceuticals into people.

Seems reasonable.

Faith-based approaches – there are better ways to do this.

Oh for fuck's sake.

And, of course, the ironic thing is that Ramaswamy is a pharma bro.

    • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      All of my experience with religion ultimately revealed it to be a weapon of division and control. Us v Them, Saint v Sinners, Saved v Damned, righteous v Unclean, etc etc

      In the most extreme cases, they want Armageddon ASAP…that is their hope.

      It's all peace and love early on, but the cracks always appear.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      That’s a pretty depressing life if you have no hope for anything and just use willful ignorance to hope that things will be better after you’re dead