fellow_human

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It's funny your term "vortexing" has an actual name in the world of psychology, it's called dissociation. Anyway well done for realizing these things, it's taken me years of continued therapy to keep making progress on mental health. I only brought it up because I believe everyone can benefit from therapy. :)

fellow_human

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The "Chemical Imbalance" hypothesis is extremely simplistic and seems very appealing to believe amongst the HN crowd. Unfortunately the evidence for it has been sorely lacking and within the past couple of decades more psychologists have been advocating for a wholistic understanding of mental illness. That is it has causes which are complex. It is a mix of childhood experiences, relationships, maladapted development and many other individual circumstances.

Read more here: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-we-...

fellow_human

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Try psychodynamic therapy, it works to treat the root causes of depression, not offerring a magic chemical imbalance pill that makes you dissassociate from the root causes of sufferring.

fellow_human

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The golden standard of depression treatment is long term talk therapy to actually work with the qualitative nature of ones depressive thoughts and sufferring and resolve those feelings, not magic chemical imbalance pills that don't actually work much better than a placebo and cause disassociation from ones real life problems.

fellow_human

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Your appeal to reductio ad absurdum here fails because it's not established that SSRIs work by restoring an imbalance. SSRIs are only little more effective than a placebo, suggesting there's something deeper at play with regards to depression. Yes they may be an effective measure in serious cases of depression but they certainly are not a cure and many people do not just turn "normal functioning" after SSRI treatments like you're suggesting. The disease model of depression simply is not true.

fellow_human

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Glucosamine is taken a lot by runners as its promoted as a suppliment that helps cartilidge in the knees. Runners are unlikely to be current smokers and more likely to be working their lungs in a healhty way.

fellow_human

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With all the common sense replies explaining why, I guess this was not the real question at all.

fellow_human

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I think "social construct" is the term you're looking for and yes every culture on earth relies on social constructs to navigate reality.

fellow_human

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I'm not saying porn should be banned, I'm just think people are misinformed that there are no consequences to it, or that it's harmless.

Just like the solution to drug addiction isn't making drug usage illegal, neither is banning porn.

fellow_human

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> Stats are showing that women are consuming lots of porn now too.

And that somehow makes porn nice and healthy does it?

> Personally I'd do away with 'mainstream' porn, my inner voyeur likes the homemade stuff too much.

I'm not sure I understand your argument, nor confident you understand mine. Just because a couple make homemade videos together and post them up, it doesn't mean the viewer who is getting sexual gratification has any sort of real connection to the performers. It's complete fantasy, dependant on the human body as solely as means of sexual gratification rather than any wholistic context. Now take that mindset to to the real world as see how maladapted it leaves you. Here in the UK there's an epidemic of highscool aged girls being pressured into sending nude images by boys. Of course porn can't be to blame for all of this, but I'm sure it plays a big part.

I'd also like to point out nothing I'm talking about is related to morality (since you mentioned it). Whatever people want to spend their time doing is up to them. I'm simply making the argument that porn can be harmful and lots of mainstream porn is really focused around turning women into sex objects and outlets for dealing with displaced emotions. I've no doubt that there's something deeper that drives your voyeurism too, maybe inquiring about that might make you pursue something more fulfilling than images on the internet.

Let's stop pretending there are no consequences to porn.

fellow_human

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> A lot of people don't (and in my opinion, shouldn't) conflate such a primal activity as "sacred". Is it really a good idea to put sex up on a pedestal?

I think people should have a realistic view of what sex is. It certainly is not a mechanical & purely physical act (perhaps thats what you mean by "primal"). Sex represented in porn tends be unrealistic and treats women as objects purely for male gratification, to use as some sort of sexual punching bag and evacuate feelings. Essentially it teaches viewers to dehumanise women and dissassociate from real life.

fellow_human

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Trauma leads to changes in brain chemistry that can cause reenactment behaviors until the trauma gets resolved

https://lakesidemilam.com/blog/trauma-stress-repetition-comp...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330499/

fellow_human

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> It was so traumatic .... Lena decided to go back two more times to do more humiliation scenes with same producer. $$$$

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply snarkily that because Lena went back to do more pornography shoots that she is lying about her experience and trauma. But just in case that is what you're implying it's worth me pointing out that repitition is a very common consequence of sufferring a trauma. The mental effects of trauma cause a cycle of trauma re-enactment behaviors.

https://lakesidemilam.com/blog/trauma-stress-repetition-comp...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2664732/

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