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by stupidcar 2263 days ago
Isn't every treatment we have for depression some form of neuro-circuitry tweaking? Whether you're using prescription medication, electroconvulsion, psychosurgery, counselling or self-medicating with legal or illegal drugs, you're deliberately altering your brain function in the hope that it'll result in temporary or permanent changes to your feelings and behaviour. What makes this procedure more ethically dangerous than those?