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14th June 2023

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Proposed: we really did lose something with the 80s-90s “Listening to Prozac” rise of antidepressants taking away a lot of depression-mediated art, because even if the artists did create equivalent, more, or better art without depression their art was no longer drawing so deeply from agony and despair and for lack of that product the culture features those themes less and thus fails to productively contextualize them for the benefit of non-pathological citizens who may be expected to encounter them on occasion

  1. carnivorous-snail said: …depression than we would have without the introduction of those medications.
  2. carnivorous-snail said: Counterpoint: I myself have been better able to contextualise and express themes of depression in my art since finding a useful antidepressant, since I’m not drowning in it and have 2mm of distance from it to be able to observe it. It’s very difficult to make art about intense emotional experiences while you’re having those experiences, and given that depression often leaves the sufferer completely non-functional, I’d posit that we have probably seen more art about…
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