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> It really feels like a part of my personality was frozen in time when I went on the drugs, and that as I come off them slowly that part of me has thawed. I'm

> It really feels like a part of my personality was frozen in time when I went on the drugs, and that as I come off them slowly that part of me has thawed. I'm sure you are talking about antidepressants, but I wonder if the same isn't true for people who have consumed recreational drugs for extended periods. It seems natural that if you regularly alter your internal chemistry, the natural processes that would happen in an unaltered states (such as psychological maturation) would also be altered. I also wonder if there isn't a standardized therapy kind of like PT for physical injuries for bringing people back up to speed emotionally.

md224 9y ago
It's also possible that antidepressants (and drugs of abuse) numb some part of your mind that's broken due to emotional trauma, and as a result you lose that part of your personality while it heals. Then, when you come off the drug, you're all better. It's like a kind of mental anesthetic. This could explain why many drug abuse problems spontaneously resolve. I'll admit this sounds kind of insane, but I'll also point out that we still really know so little about the actual workings of our own minds. Maybe we're misunderstanding the relationship between people and psychoactive drugs.