Posted by bleauberry on June 21, 2009, at 18:27:22
In reply to question about antidepressants/depression, posted by sam K on June 19, 2009, at 19:54:06
Once in a while antidepressants make someone outright happy as heck. Not often. I'm thinking of Ace the Nardil champ, and a few others at patient review sites. Zoloft, Prozac, Lexapro, Modafanil, they can all do it. But rarely. That is not what they are supposed to do.
They are supposed to restore you to feeling normal. Not high, not overly happy, not anything, just you, just normal.
I personally do not believe they do that. I feel they take our brain to a different place. It is close to normal, but different. It is a different place. I mean, before we got depressed, we didn't have floods of serotonin at our synapses that were 100% to 300% higher than normal. With antidepressants we do. There is no way that kind of change is going to bring as back to where we started. It will take us some place new. Hopefully a good new.
Not feeling anything at all is not uncommon. No downs, but no ups either. Nothing creates excitement or interest. Nothing bothers you. You don't cry at funerals. You don't laugh like everyone around you is. That flat feeling is in the realm of apathy and/or anhedonia, which are not uncommonly the result of antidepressant treatment. It depends on each person's unique chemistry and how the medication is impacting it.
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