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Thread #26141   Message #312289
Posted By: mousethief
04-Oct-00 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Chemical antidepressants -- yea or nay?
Subject: RE: BS: Chemical antidepressants -- yea or nay?
I see that now. My mistake, Sins. Forgive me. I see we're on the same team. Fortunately I've not had any suicide attempts in any close friends, but I've got three people in my house (including myself) on antidepressants and am a firm believer in them.

I think some people don't want to think about mental illness being chemically caused because it's too uncomfortable to think of oneself in such physical terms. My ideas, my thoughts, my passions -- surely these are not chemical, but spiritual, these people think. I understand the feeling, believe me. But it's wrong. Like it or not, we are physical beings, and tiny changes in our brain chemistry can produce changes in moods and other psychological phenomena.

I'm 100% with what Sins said in the other thread.

Now where's Little Hawk so we can kick his can?

Alex
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