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While some important points are raised, it strikes me as pill shaming (again), but delivered more thoughtfully, which is arguably worse
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But it's still WRONG. You don't *need* to stop taking antidepressants, and arguing otherwise can be v harmful
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They no longer work
They're no longer needed
They start causing more issues than the problem they're treating
But "You're not supposed to take them for long" is bollocks, and you can quote me on that
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Great if that happens, and obviously psychoactive drugs should be reduced/stopped with expert guidance (and not the ideological scaremongering of certain dubious journos)
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15783292
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Well, sometimes keeping the the baseline level of activity of key neurons, that shut down during depression, artificially raised, essentially kicks them up the arse (metaphorically) to keep them working and stave off depression
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Except, taking pills long-term is bad. So this is wrong. Apparently
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Hence this tedious article irked me so much, I'm focusing on this extensively right now
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Nobody *needs* to stop taking their meds if they're still helping. There's no rule, and it can even be v helpful without signs of depression.
Reasonable-seeming articles which insist (sans evidence) that you do, are dangerous
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I'll wager it won't. At all
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Que sera, eh?
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