>>490860
>most guys would rather deal with themselves by themselves rather than gobbling meds
Which historically they instead just slowly drank themselves to death over the course of decades. When men don't medicate, by and large they self-medicate.
>it's too nihilistic
No it's called actually working to fix your problem, the nihilistic approach is accepting you should just have sadness in life as part of being a man instead of doing something about it. This is about utilizing mankind's innovations, you wouldn't fucking accept having cancer as just the natural state of things, you'd start cancer treatments.
Did you know 80% of people who go through ECT stop feeling depressed? Because for a lot of them, their neurons are misfiring, and a way to fix that is to use electrical impulses directly into the brain's right hemisphere to trigger seizures meant to flip the circuit breakers in their brain back to normal.