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There's a lot of misunderstanding how antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications work, too. They don't suddenly make you happy all the time, oblivious to the world's problems. In the west I think one of our core values is "I'd rather be depressed but knowledgeable than happy but ignorant" and so anti-depressants seem like going against that. Anti-depressants don't do that, for a depressed person your brain (whether through biology or socialized thinking) to notice only bad stuff that happens and it grinds you down. You're already not getting a "true" viewpoint of the world, just an incredibly lovely one. Anti-depressants retrain your brain to at least notice when something good happens in your life so you're not so fixated on everything that's awful. It's not like you pop one and instant euphoria.
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Zephro posted:What if the reason you're feeling down is legitimately due to circumstances? When I've had mild depression in the past* it's usually been at least partly a result of circumstances, and the depression is a warning that something in my life is not going right. Changing that something usually alleviates the depression. Antidepressants aren't going to erase that. You're correct, depression is a warning sign that somethings wrong in your life and you need to fix it. The problem is when you become so obsessed with the lovely parts that you cannot even imagine it getting better. Optimism is an emotion that drives us to do things because if we didn't believe we had even a remote chance at something, we never would even try. My point is calling anti depressants "happy pills" is a misnomer because it doesn't make you euphoric even when the world is crashing around you, you wont go "Well I lost my job and my house is being foreclosed, but lets look on the bright side", but you won't be discouraged by every little bump in the road that comes your way, as people with clinical depression do.
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