• Antidepressants did this to me. I had been on them since I was twelve, weened myself off them at 33. My emotional center has been gradually waking up ever since. Being able to cry when I need to is such a blessing.

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        2 days ago

        I think what happened to me had a lot to do with the age at which I started taking them. We now know that antidepressants shouldn’t be prescribed to brains that haven’t finished developing. So in most cases anyone under the age of 26.

        Introducing antidepressants to the brain of a traumatized 12 year old basically neutered my emotional center and made me asexual. They also acted as puberty blockers as I didn’t hit puberty until I was 17 and it happened when they switched my meds. I grew 16 inches in a year.

        Giving antidepressants to a kid is child

        abuse.

        The person who downvoted me can fuck off forever