Metro spoke to a number of people who use antidepressants to treat various mental health conditions — and for many, the drugs proved to be not a shortcut or placebo, but a vital lifeline.
amid the lingering mental health effects of lockdown, there is more scrutiny around their usage than ever.
Metro.co.uk spoke to a number of people who use antidepressants to treat various mental health conditions — and for many, the drugs proved to be not a shortcut or placebo, but a vital lifeline. ‘Gradually, I felt like I had the energy and stability to be able deal with my struggles and address past trauma,’ he explains. ‘I’m not sure I would have been able to benefit from therapy had I not been given a sense of stability by my antidepressants.’Antidepressants are used to treat depression, anxiety, panic disorders, eating disorders, and phobias, among other things She tells us: ‘I had this realisation that I was actually really unwell.
‘It’s almost like life kind of got its colour back,’ she tells us. ‘I cared about things and wanted to do things I loved again.‘I would leave the house, get dressed, and instead of just shoving toast in my mouth, I would actually make myself food that made me feel happy.’‘But antidepressants have made meagain,’ she says. ‘They’ve made me able to look through the world and feel things, and I think negative depictions of antidepressants can rob people from that.‘They don’t change who you are.
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