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A comment on The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs. Parent comment

Re:The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs by com2kid on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:29PM (#19548486)
The outcome measures for that study are all related to decrease of depressive symptoms, they are not measuring increase in happiness.

(Also no one is taking effexor to get high!)

An SNRI isn't going to make people feel happy or joyous. It may lift the fog of depression and allow one to feel happiness, but it doesn't create it on its own.

Joy in a pill, without long term side effects, doesn't yet exist.

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Re:The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs by YjSe2GMQ on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:50AM (#19551191)
> It may lift the fog of depression and allow one to feel happiness.

Well if removing pain isn't happiness. It was for me. At least I don't think any more of how killing yourself is only a problem because of the people that will stay alive and suffer because of your suicide.

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