Are There Emotional Reasons People Stop Taking Antidepressants?
We don’t tend to think of our brains the way we think about liver, pancreas, and knee joints. So the idea of taking an antidepressant poses a philosophical challenge for many depressed people. It may be OK to take insulin for diabetes, and no one feels alienated by a replaced hip. But the very notion that a pill can improve one’s thought patterns can be a little frightening. “People think, ‘It will make me a zombie and will change my personality,’” says Gabrielle Melin, MD, MS, a psychiatrist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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