...many people these days suffer with depression and related mental illness. It's a sad fact that the 'anti-depressant' medicine is nowhere near being an exacting science. In many cases, they actually make the patient worse... the trouble being that we simply don't know enough about the human brain and simply employing a 'trial & error' approach is helping nobody. I tend to think that many people just need a level of support and would benefit more with a course of placebo pills! The anti-depressant drugs are, without doubt, mind-altering, but nobody can say for sure what long-term effects will arise in an individual patient. There is no uniform reaction with any of these drugs as everyone's mind is completely unique. The doctors and GP's hand out the medication like sweets and it really needs to stop - the real problem is that the drugs simply restrict mental function, they mask the extreme behaviour but do nothing to cure a patient of their ills. The main concern is that in many cases, certain 'mental doors' are opened and frightening levels of non-feeling are experienced by the people taking the drugs. These 'doors' cannot be closed and my worry would be that in the future, the people being fed these much untested drugs will produce much more socially extreme behaviour - the lack of feeling and empathy will surely lead to more robotic emotional responses? A terrifying prospect in my opinion. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2134863/Anti-depressants-harm-good.html
You may have a point, I know people who have been on these meds for years they dont seem to help, I actually thing they dont need drugs. They are just broed of life and need something to reawaken that excitement for life they have lost somewhere along the line.
A lot of anti depressants / anti psychotics are quite good fun for getting ****ed up with You're just a ****. Long live the free NHS prescriptions
