Posted by violette on September 25, 2010, at 10:01:10
In reply to Re: What will a pill do? - What will a pill not do?, posted by Alexanderfromdenmark on September 25, 2010, at 9:20:33
> Actually from my own experience pills actually hinder positive emotions through emotional blunting.
I had a similar experience, with feeling emotionally blunted, AfD, though i did experience positive emotions. But i felt distanced from myself-relatively little affected me-critisim/praise; failures/accomplishments. Nothing upset me. Nothing angered me. ADs covered up painful emotions that were already there; when I later quit taking them, i regressed so re-tried some...they were no longer effective, or some of the time the side effects were too unbearable to wait the 2 months to see...so the emotions returned.
Though ADs sure got me back to functioning...it was at the expense of further distancing myself from emotions that were begging to be dealt with.
ADs allowed me to go about my life as functional as i was before, but in effect=also enabled me to delay doing the necessary work to heal inner wounds...I didn't know it at the time, just was taking my psychiatrist's advice, which back then, assumed was how depression and anxiety were to be dealt with.
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