Tag: emotional blunting
Patient Reports Reveal SSRI Antidepressants Often Lead to Emotional Blunting
According to patient reports, SSRI antidepressants most frequently lead to the subjective experience of emotional blunting.
Venomagnosia
InĀ Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants, Dr. Peter Kramer makes two arguments that I agree with. The trouble for me is that Kramerās clinical vision seems strangely rose-tinted. He is an advocate of using antidepressants to treat depression, but he doesnāt seem to see any of the problems antidepressants cause.
My Pharmaceutical Reincarnation
I lost almost four years of my life, and Iāve not a doubt that it was due to those ālife-savingā pills. To that end, they did work. At a time when I was doubled-over with depression, those four prescriptions kept me alive. But then they killed me slowly and brought me back as a stranger.
Beneath the Fog
The medication left me emotionally numb, making it impossible to connect with people or sense the aliveness of the world around me. But after two years on antidepressants, I found something that gave me jolt of feeling strong enough to wake me up for a moment. I then spent the next seven years giving myself daily doses of horror to induce an emotional reaction.