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Originally Posted by Azure
This is insane. I personally know many people who are anti-depressants for the exact reasons stated.
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I would not mark this off an insane if there is sound science there. Anti-depressants may simply mask or dull the symptoms of the causes of depression - which itself is a very vibrant area of study and inconclusiveness.
I am intimately familiar as a sufferer of clinical depression two decades ago and I went through many Alberta health professionals and cocktails of medications and therapy sessions and none of them worked for me.
What finally worked was changing the actual conditions of my life. I don't find this hard to believe as your body naturally gets serotonin and endorphin highs from exciting activities such as roller coasters and doing sports. If your life conditions are mired in misery, rejection, darkness, isolation, and general bad outcomes, you are definitely going to have a distinct deficit of neurotransmitters. In these cases, the medications may simply be artificially trying to top you up but the underlying conditions of your life are still the root cause and not a chemical imbalance for some people.
I do realize that the above sounds like a Tom Cruise thing to say but this is my personal experience.
If anything, I wish I had not taken them as I am still suffering debilitating physical side effects of those anti-depressants 20 years later.