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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2013-01-03 09:28 am
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Antidepressants: you're doing it wrong

Every last one of you peeps who have never been on an antidepressant: the next time you are tempted (whether out of ignorance, fear, or some other non- evidence-based reason) to dismiss the entire category as "happy pills", pipe the fuck down.

Of course some people have shitty reactions to antidepressants, either a specific one or entire categories. This includes shitty emotional reactions. Also, a health provider who pushes pills without other treatments is an utter shithole of a system.

However, for the people for whom it works right (with or without other treatments), this is what it does:

Stops the self-reinforcing cycle of shitty life events bringing down brain chemistry and shitty brain chemistry hindering recovery.
Makes it possible for other brain tinkering to work.
Allows a normal range of emotion while preventing the deepest lows from sticking. (Me off St. John's Wort looks a lot like me on, until I get in a shitty mood and don't recover.)
Saves people's goddamn lives, jobs, relationships.

"Happy pills," my ass.
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[personal profile] kaberett 2013-01-04 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, did not mean to pile on - and thank you. Luck to you!

(-- esp. as I am also in the UK and have been lucky enough to have very different experiences -- but part of that is having had a lot of practice at being really, REALLY assertive about my medical care before I hit crisis point with my mental health.)
Edited 2013-01-04 00:42 (UTC)