Antidepressants Make it Harder to Empathize, Harder to Climax, and Harder to Cry.
When it comes to being a woman, it sounds as though antidepressant use is a real downer, to say the least. Check out this video from Big Think. Dr. Julie Holland argues that women are designed by nature to be dynamic and sensitive – women are moody and that is a good thing. Yet millions of women are medicating away their emotions because we are out of sync with our own bodies and we are told that moodiness is a problem to be fixed. One in four women takes a psychiatric drug. If you add sleeping pills to the mix the statistics become higher. Overprescribed medications can have far-reaching consequences for women in many areas of our lives: sex, relationships, sleep, eating, focus, balance, and aging. Dr. Holland’s newest book is titled Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You’re Taking, the Sleep You’re Missing, the Sex You’re Not Having and What’s Really Making You Crazy.
As a female who’s never touched, but has seen the damage done to others I’ve felt it necessary to intervene/advocate for over many years, this author’s opinion/cautionary is SPOT ON TRUE…after closer to home, I once had an 82 y/o beloved Uncle who had been on the SSRI drug class for Migraines, and once he took himself off of (had enough of ‘flattened, detached affect’) so did he follow through with the self-destruction of committing suicide with a gun he’d stashed and his family never knew about. While the SSRIs/anti-depressants seem to lock one into such perverse, often circular, unrelenting ‘thinking’ the soon chemically altered mind will still not usually ‘act’ upon these tendencies UNTIL they go off these drugs…or wean themselves too soon…and than they “do” take action even if such deliberated tragedy causes grave harm to themselves.
Additionally, recent studies have confirmed how the NSAID class of OTC drugs, especially TYLENOL (Acetaminophen) will (besides acute Liver damage) severely BLUNT one’s ability to feel or express empathy…and yet, of all viscerally-derived emotions that more so distinguish us as caringly human/humane, it is this nuanced ability to ‘momentarily stand in the shoes of another’ in order to ‘better understand THEIR situation’ that is so sorely needed in these glaringly egregious (incited by pHARMa’s lust for lethal profit) times. Suffice to say, it is the (by now) raging tyranny of synthetic DRUGS that we ALL must resist. THANK YOU to both “Good Doctors” we admire in Tenpenny and Holland.