What you experienced is a recognised risk with antidepressants in general and I'm glad you realised what was going on - in fact there was a mass shooting in the US that was attributed to Prozac
Fluoxetine after a bereavement made me sleep 16-18 hours a day and feel totally numb so I stopped taking it. A random passerby in the street gave me 2 kittens and taking care of them saved my life.
The problem is less the drug than those prescribing it. Many decent, well trained pharmacists will tell you that meds are an extremely blunt object and absolutely everybody responds differently to every substance out there
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Thank you for sharing this article, I don't find it very surprising. Corruption at every level of this system we live in.
That's really great about the cats. I adopted a stray in my back yard at the start of the pandemic and named him Covid :D he's been a real godsend for me.. real innocent cute little soul that keeps me on top of my game.
Totally, some seem to think that if a pill has an intended purpose, it's going to work the same for everyone, disregarding the similar but unique physiology we all have.
I'm always amazed too how we see the psychiatrist before the psychologist. Shouldn't the first response be addressing the issue/root problem to see if it's solvable before medication? Always found that to be a little backwards and maybe serving for profit over health..
It seems the sole purpose of a psychiatrist is to treat by way of medication and medication only, whereas psychologists perform psychotherapy, which may be beneficial in helping people with their mental health issues, perhaps more than a masking agent. (in severe cases maybe this is appropriate, but then again a psychologist should be able to recognize the need for emergency based meds. imo)
There's just a lot that doesn't make sense to me regarding the medical practice.
Finding answers are never easy and there is a lot of turf war between psychologists and psychiatrists. There's also the fact that most would just prefer to take a pill to make it all go away...