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What are my implicit assumptions? That locking human beings in their houses is by default a negative thing that will cause depression?

That seems obvious to me. Animals don’t like being in cages.



That it's merely psychological, not biological.

I'm not depressed. I'm a brunette for the first time in a decade or more. I live without a car and the sun typically keeps my hair bleached out to a shade of blonde.

But I have a serious medical condition and already did remote work and germ control is my life.

I had a longstanding issue resolve about six months. For the first time in decades, I'm mostly not suicidal anymore.

To whatever degree depression is biological in origin, drugs may be a reasonable treatment.

Granted, curing sick building syndrome and other root causes may be better in the long run. But it can take ages to confidently identify such things, educate people, find solutions, etc.

In the mean time, a new drug option for a biologically based ailment may do wonders for people in the here and now.

I routinely treat somatopsychic issues with diet and exercise. I also routinely get dismissed by internet strangers as a nutter.

So I'm confident that the answer you want both exists and will take an excessively long time to distribute to a meaningful portion of the human population.


Where do you live that you are locked in your house? I haven’t seen that where I am.




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