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byChas ( 5144 ) writes:
Part of the problem is this whole "sick culture" where people are convinced nowadays that they are all seriously ill but can simply medicate any problem away.
Listen to some of these commercials on television. A good chunk of them have side effects including triggering the things they're supposed to be helping you with. Like antidepressants that can make you MORE suicidal.
My whole response to this is "Are you fucking kidding me?"
bydemonlapin ( 527802 ) writes:
Like antidepressants that can make you MORE suicidal.
Not exactly right; I'd not bother explaining except that this is a really cool story. There are two aspects to depression - the positive symptoms (like feeling suicidal), and the negative symptoms (like not having energy). The negative symptoms clear up first when treated with antidepressants, so in a brief period of time, they have energy and will but don't feel better yet. Those are the ones who finally get up the courage to kill themselves, which is why that warning is there.
bymehrotra.akash ( 1539473 ) writes:
I dont really know much about anything medical, but feeling suicidal is a positive symptom?
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bydemonlapin ( 527802 ) writes:
Specialized meaning of the word "positive". Means things that are there that shouldn't be there (like desire to kill yourself), as opposed to negative symptoms, which are the absence of normal things (like wanting to have fun, however you define that).
bymehrotra.akash ( 1539473 ) writes:
ohk.. That explains it
bySpeZek ( 970136 ) writes:
Having the energy and drive to act on it is a positive symptom, as opposed to the lack of energy and drive one experiences during depression.
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