>The effects the patients describe are pretty much the recreational effects. Except theyre not. Saying, "My ahedonia feels better today. I smiled at a baby on

>The effects the patients describe are pretty much the recreational effects. Except theyre not. Saying, "My ahedonia feels better today. I smiled at a baby on the street but am still otherwise a little melancholy," is a whole lot different than "Dude, I'm trippin' balls here!" This is like the difference between taking an opiate to stop pain and taking an opiate to get fucked up. They are not the same effects. How a drug interacts with a sick person is going to be different than a healthy person especially when the doses vary. As a depressive, I never understood how much fun my friends were having on drugs. The effect on drugs on me was always very watered down. I have an unhealthy brain and that means typical means to get high aren't available to me. /guy who has been on more anti-depressive treatments that he cares to admit