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I think it's obvious that any psychoactive substance will change one's self. Hence the word psychoactive.

• zokier 13y ago
  Of course they'll change one's self, that's the point. Also talk therapy (hopefully) changes one's self. More specifically changing from depressed to not depressed. But that completely different from your original statement of "make you into somebody you're not".
  • mumbi 13y ago
    To change one's self artificially is to make one into something he or she is not. Yes, I did not mention artificial, but I assumed that was a given.
• mistercow 13y ago
  By the same technical semantics parsing, it is either impossible or trivial for anything to "make you somebody you're not", depending on how you parse it. If it means that you aren't the person that you are after taking it, then that's obviously contradictory. You are always the person you are. If it means that you aren't the person you were before taking it, then the medication is not necessary for that. At any given moment, you are always a different person than you were in the previous moment. And even if you (erroneously) reject the latter, you would still have to concede that you are not the same person, after "fixing" yourself through non-pharmacological means, as you were when you were depressed.