Robert F. Kennedy: It Looks Like Almost Every Mass Shooter Is On SSRI Drugs and NIH will not study that because it will offend the pharmaceutical industry.”

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there's really no such thing as mental illness as we understand it

Mental illness is a horrible term. What we term mental illnesses are not diseases.

It's all a hardware problem and/or a natural response to the environment.

Agreed. What we call depression often (not always) has a sociological basis rather than being a congenital hardware problem, like PTSD (PTSD can cause brain changes, but the environment is clearly causal). Other conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder seem to be hardware related