Robin Williams Dead

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

curing structural problems in the brain is a lot harder than just making a pill. for all their greed i don't think big pharma is evil enough to want to keep around diseases. besides, they'll always exist, and if pfizer doesn't develop the cure someone else will. lost money.

[The Dharma Bum]

[eynon81]

[John Galt]

i think this gets back to what dark was saying about labeling it a disease, as if there is something to cure

it won't be cured until we can modify our genetic code readily. until then you're just messing with the symptoms. this isn't a disease that you can cut out. while not as drastic, it's like trying to cure down's syndrome. you have to change the person to cure it

[Homer]

[Darkhorse]

[Homer]

[Darkhorse]

[John Galt]

i'd say it's more of an absence of happiness than anything else. there's even a name for it, anhedonia, and it is common in depression as well as people with schizophrenia. people experiencing it say they feel empty inside and from my experience that's an accurate describption. this doesn't mean they don't feel, it is that nothing is really pleasurable. worse, you know it should be pleasurable, which in turns makes you feel worse about it. people who don't feel are called psychopaths