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You can also get addicted to pain killers. They still can help, but are surely no long term solution. Antidepressants fall in the same category for me, even th
by hutzlibu 4y ago
You can also get addicted to pain killers. They still can help, but are surely no long term solution.
Antidepressants fall in the same category for me, even though I always avoided them. But if things are really dark, I would use any tool.
- haswell 4y agoI would place antidepressants under a different umbrella - closer to insulin or other chronically required "maintenance" medicine required to sustain life. Anti-depressants don't take pain away. In some cases, they make it possible to even feel pain. I'm ~6 years into my therapy journey at this point and I'm not on antidepressants at the moment, but I have been in the past when I needed them. I'm fortunate that I was able to stop, and that was partly because I put my work life on hold to go on sabbatical and use all of my capacity on myself for awhile. But that doesn't mean everyone can or should. I think it's also worth noting that especially now, mental health issues are increasingly caused by advancements in technology we don't yet know how to cope with, and from which there's very little escape. Meds allow one to do the hard internal work that would be significantly harder to achieve if they don't have the capacity to keep a well functioning life up and running. I think only embracing one or the other exclusively is where things start to go wrong, and what I took from the article.