Re:FDA Approves First Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression
by habinero on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:23PM
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I'm sorry, but your cousin's mom's goofy nickname for them is not a relevant anecdote.
I have been on several and I'm speaking from experience. They do not make you happy. They do not induce euphoria. What they do is relieve depression. Instead of being nonfunctional and crippled, you get some energy and mood back. Ideally, enough to let you work on other things and help you get back to stable.
Plenty of people only need them for a limited time, and that's just fine.
Psychotropic pharmaceutical drugs are mind-altering substances. They place people in an "altered state of consciousness". Does this sound familiar.
When my cousin was afflicted by chronic major depression, and he was prescribed Prozac, his mother commented "it's like I have my Joey back!" because his mood had lifted and he was acting very differently, different from his behavior in the past year or so, perhaps more like he was as a small child.
Of course this behavior was mostly because he had been seeing a therapist and was getting some positive attention and reassurance. The SSRI drug soon triggered progressively more intense outbursts of rage and irrational behavior, and it would not be discovered for 5 years that he actually had a more serious mental illness, and the diagnosis and administration of SSRIs had been hasty and improper, exacerbating his condition.