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Avoid the drugs. They alter your brain, deadening it and stop you being as good at your job. I'd recommend a book called Mind Over Mood. https://www.mindovermoo
by neilwilson 7y ago
Avoid the drugs. They alter your brain, deadening it and stop you being as good at your job. I'd recommend a book called Mind Over Mood. https://www.mindovermood.com https://www.mindovermood.com
I was told: When you find yourself thinking dark thoughts just stop doing it. It's that easy to fix depression, and also that ridiculously hard. Crack it though and you're sorted for life.
Throw away the symptomatic crutch and address the root causes. It's the engineering way.
- PaulHoule 7y agoMost evidence is that antidepressants and other forms of therapy (particularly CBT) go together like peanut butter and jelly. Depressant drugs such as Xanax or Klonopin on the other hand open up ion channels in your neurons that let the electrical charge drain out. You get fast and often complete relief from anxiety but learning and memory is impaired. People who use benzodiazepines for a long time seem to grow older but not grow up, you see them and they still have the same conversation that they had with you ten years ago, they just don't seem to move on the way that most people do. That's not true about antidepressants.
- qplex 7y agoWhat "most evidence". Please provide something tangible instead of analogies.
- PaulHoule 7y agoSee https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15507582 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15507582
- qplex 7y agoSo from your linked study: >"The remission rate for combined treatment did not differ from that for CBT alone (P = .42) " With the conclusion: >Children and adolescents with OCD should begin treatment with the combination of CBT plus a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or CBT alone. Basically they didn't find any difference between patients on SSRIs and therapy, to those doing only therapy.