Your assertion is that Lemmy users aren’t genuine.

Good point. I completely forgot the scope of OP’s question was Lemmy specifically. In that case, I’m not sure whether it’s likely that it’s a disinformation campaign or not. I certainly hope it isn’t.

You also implied that TikTok - A platform globally moderated by the the USA - is a hotbed for PR Chinese propaganda, which isn’t reasonable either.

Isn’t it reasonable? There’s a lot of both pro- as well as anti-China content on American platforms. I’d think there’d be at least as much pro-China content on a Chinese platform. There does’t necessarily have to be more of it. I’d say it’s more a matter of young people being vulnerable and TikTok being extremely good at capturing their attention.

So this is the lemmy.ml I’ve heard so much about, huh?

Got any evidence to back up this assertion?

You want me to prove… that China is rich and can afford pretty much everything, including online propaganda…? Hmm, let’s see… I guess the fact it’s the world’s 2nd biggest economy (or 1st if we look at actual productivity and not the USA’s heavily inflated GDP) might be a tiny clue.

Would it really be a shock to anyone if a global superpower spread propaganda to be viewed more positively by people around the world? Russia and the USA do it all the time. Why wouldn’t China?

Or maybe people just disagree with you

I guess people never disagree with you, becuase it looks like it’s the first time you’ve been exposed to an opinion that doesn’t align with yours.

Personally I haven’t seen anything pro-Russia, so I can only comment on pro-China content.

Seems to me like a lot of people are finally realizing most of what they knew about China was American propaganda, and it’s not actually that bad. Though of course, people being polarized as they are, they’re moving from one extreme to the other, and not somewhere in between.

Plus, China has a lot of resources to spend on its own propaganda. This especially affects younger generations, who spend a lot of time on TikTok.

Is this some kind of organized disinformation campaign?

I’d say it’s quite likely.

In short: those are pretty much the two only solutions.

Of course, there are different types of depression and they can all be cured in different ways. For some of them there’s no cure at the moment.

Matter of fact I had seen a study that suggest a very high percentage of people are drug treatment resistant (meaning that there depression would not get better with any prescribed drugs).

Therapist =/= drugs. First of all, a therapist cannot prescribe you anything. That’s the job of psychiatrists. Both a therapist and a psychiatrist may recommend drugs for depression if they deem it appropriate, but it’s by bo means the default or the go-to option (or at least it shouldn’t be). Sometimes depression is a natural response to events like death of loved ones and drugs do nothing to cure it.

I had seen studies that say that training or even just daily walks can highly improve mood, but I had never heard that they fully cure depression.

Both of those things are commonly recommended by regular people as well as therapists, because they’re known to be effective, and more importantly - they are completely free. For 99% of people, absolutely nothing is stopping them from doing a few pushups or walking to a park. The cost/benefit ratio here is insane. As for ‘fully curing depression’ - that would highly depend on the type of depression. Also, keep in mind depression is rarely cured with just one thing.

To summarize: people recommend a therapist, because a therapist is usually the best option for any mental problems, though it may not be cheap. While exercising, or just walking and interacting with nature, are basically free and always help, but may not produce noticeable results.