[entropyneur]

> Dulling the pain for me also meant dulling life.

I've heard quite a few people say similar things (including my therapist), but it's such a sharp contrast to my own experience. There are indeed very good reasons not to use these drugs (I currently don't and it's costing me dearly), but "dulling" is not a word that would ever come to my mind if I tried to describe the experience of being on them. The years I was medicating are actually the brightest patch of my adult life.

Well, I guess such differences are to be expected when we don't know what depression is and why these drugs work.