Posted by baseball55 on December 7, 2014, at 19:34:52
In reply to If you've always been melancholic, can ADs help?, posted by orochi on December 7, 2014, at 11:30:07
> But if antidepressants cannot make you become a different person, in my case being unnaturally happy, then what can they do?
> Can they reduce the overall symptoms to a degree but you'll still feel the same feelings you always felt before?
> I know that I'm not a happy,optimistic person. I also have many real issues which cause me to be depressed and not happy. I ask myself how should it be like if I found a drug which actually works? Should I then feel unnaturally happy and at the same time know that this feeling isn't natural? Or should I be emotionally numb and not feel anything compared to being depressed?When drugs have worked for me, I did not feel happy, nor did I feel numb. I just didn't feel overwhelming despair anymore. I felt functional. I still had things in my life that made me unhappy. I still felt sad sometimes. I still struggled with psychic demons. But I was able to deal with some of this and to actually get some benefit from therapy to deal with the emotional issues.
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