Antidepressants are interesting but only part of the story. People with depression don't fully understand how "broken" they actually are and normalise depressi

Antidepressants are interesting but only part of the story. People with depression don't fully understand how "broken" they actually are and normalise depressive behaviours further drilling in the issue. I've dealt with bad depression before to the point of suicidal ideation and weird conspiratorial paranoia... on the other side of it you get a very realised perspective of what these words mean to sufferers instead of a surface level description. Antidepressants seem to be a way to disrupt the usual flow of information and allow a rewrite to occur; LSD seems to be a theme these days for the same effect but I get the feeling something that's instantly hallucinogenic isn't the best way to rewire a mind... Research continues though. Another example could be (for those who have been) addiction to nicotine or any other substance: You don't understand why someone just doesn't stop until you've experienced it firsthand. There are drugs that disrupt the addiction pathways and allow an addict to recover.