Another indicator of Apocalypse:
One in six U.S. adults reported taking a psychiatric drug, such as an antidepressant or a sedative, in 2013, a new study found.
The new data comes from an analysis of the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), which gathered information on the cost and use of health care in the United States…
Moore and Mattison found that nearly 17 percent of adults in the U.S. reported filling at least one prescription for a psychiatric drug in 2013.
Antidepressants were the most common type of psychiatric drug in the survey, with 12 percent of adults reporting that they filled prescriptions for these drugs, the study said. In addition, 8.3 percent of adults were prescribed drugs from a group that included sedatives, hypnotics and anti-anxiety drugs, and 1.6 percent of adults were given antipsychotics, the researchers found.
Psychiatric drug use differed among adults of different ages, sex and race, the researchers found. For example, nearly 21 percent of white adults reported taking a psychiatric drug, compared with less than 9 percent of Hispanic adults, according to the report.
That’s about 50 million Americans who will be thrown off their hippy-dippy happy pills when the shit hits the fan and all the money goes away, leaving behind 50 million amped up depressives and psychotics, who could barely handle the real world when things were r-selected and they were hopped up on drugs. Imagine them then. 50 million SJW crack addicts who are assholes when they are high, all in the throes of withdrawal.
It is another apocalypse supercharger, courtesy of our riches and our technology. Because of these pills, people experiencing amygdala, who would otherwise have driven us to the K-shift, medicated themselves up and delayed the onset of K-selection. But in doing it they addicted themselves, and now when the K-shift finally hits, it will be ten times worse for the delay. It is like everything else, from debt-spending to the formulation of r-selection-enforcing governmental policies. Delay K, and when it finally comes it will be much worse.
And we thought it was bad with almost 4 million Muslims, God only knows how many low IQ welfarites packed tight in the cities, the street gangs like the Bloods, Crips, and MS-13, the people who will be starving and penniless, the local gangs that will crop up to take whatever they want, and the government who will try to raid any source of value anyone has preserved to bribe the populace and save their own positions of power.
Talk about a zombie apocalypse.
Spread r/K Theory, because the zombie Apocalypse is not a fantasy
Looks like the trick will be to figure out when ITZ is bad enough that you can get away with growing pot, and keep all the psychos around you baked enough to not kill you.
Literally.
https://imgur.com/gallery/5g3QX
I work on a major university campus and was shocked a few years ago to learn that all of the students who worked in our office were on antidepressants of some kind.
Hi AC, what is your personal view on psychotropic drugs? Do you think they’re simply amygdala calmers or do you think some people really need them.
t. psychotic who is probably fucked during the apocalypse
I have several assumptions. The systems were designed to balance in the environments they were designed for, given environmental variables they were designed to operate under. I think if a person can be put in the right environment, they should balance out.
That said, I think a lot of people have microbes in their guts producing stuff that is entering the blood which they may not have evolved to function with. I think the world, and the artificial forces we submit to for expediency, are unnatural for many, and that increases stresses on the system as well. I think too much ease and lack of threat can be a problem too, as counter-intuitive as it may seem.
I think it makes everyone unique enough that they have to sort out whether psychotropics work for them or not on their own. It may help in some cases. The one thing I will say is, don’t trust your doctor. If it works for you great, but if it doesn’t you need to make the call and get rid of it, and try something else.
I think a lot of people are not cut out to be isolated though, and a lot of problems could be alleviated by joining a martial arts club or a volunteer firefighting house, and making yourself a part of a group of warrior males. It is possible a lot of people are designed to be part of a warrior group, and denial of that is extraordinarily stressful.
Thanks for the reply.