#fuckedupsystem

- Trying to cry is like pushing out a shit when you’re constipated, and crying is really essential to helping you deal with sadness/be human, leading to all the frustration that you can’t cry away even though your body naturally wants to.

- Sex becomes a thing of the past, you can’t get a boner and ejaculation is really difficult

- You pretty much lose your personality if you’re on high doses and your brain goes in to autopilot so you lose all sense of personality and humanity

- You find it difficult to experience emotions to their full capacity

- You can become dependent on the antidepressants and an alarming number of people find they can’t seem to come off (convenient for the pharmaceutical companies making them, huh?) them which leads to

- Awful withdrawal symptoms similar to that of hard drug rehabilitation like cold sweats, headaches and electric pains

- Empathy becomes diluted

- You can have serious adverse reactions to them, that in some cases could be life threatening

- The transition period between starting an anti-depressant and switching to another/higher dose is an awful period I wouldn’t want anyone to go through

- The first few weeks of taking an anti-depressant HAS BEEN HEAVILY REPORTED TO MAKE PEOPLE MORE DEPRESSED AND EVEN SUICIDAL, ESPECIALLY TEENAGERS AND ADOLESCENTS  (dafuq)

- Every now and then you space out and become totally dissociated, and even hallucinate, which is not in anyway pleasurable

- Extreme nausea is very common and absolutely horrible

The matter of the fact is that we live in a society where (and I’m talking about the NHS in the UK here) if you haven’t actively been hospitalised for a suicide attempt or aren’t considered a danger to yourself or others, the system doesn’t care about your mental health, THAT’S why anti-depressants exist, because quite frankly the NHS doesn’t have the time or money to invest looking after you and treating your mental health as importantly as your physical health, GPs don’t give a shit and would rather give you a prescription and you be on your way, and pharmaceutical companies make a fuck ton of money out of the unfortunate sods who get hooked on these drugs. 

Anti-depressants do one job, they basically get you off your feet and doing stuff, but they don’t help with depression at all,  that may sound counter-intuitive but what anti-depressants do is allow you live a monotonous life in autopilot that is dull so that you can do your job and don’t take up too much sick pay, in other words unless it is combined with proper therapy (which good luck getting your hands on in this country unless you have private healthcare) they treat the symptoms and not the cause.

Mental health, namely depression in this case, is not just as simple as popping a pill everyday, increasing your serotonin levels and everything is unicorns and rainbows, it is an agglomeration of many different factors, social, environmental, genetic, cultural etc. that should be considered, besides the whole seretonin thing is a bunch of bollocks anyway that’s not actually how they work they work in a different way by changing your brain’s structure. This is abouts SSRIs by the way, the most heavily prescribed class of anti-depressants.