Roodkapje

· 28 Jul 2020

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Emotions without antidepressants

Emotion without antidepressants or rather defenseless and numb?

Antidepressants are sometimes needed, desperately needed for certain people. Yet there are also people who can do without it if they have built up the right resistance to their depression. But who decides that? Who knows if you've built up enough resistance?
The only one who can determine this right is you!
When you have taken antidepressants for years, you also know that you can feel blunting and numbness. Your emotions are suppressed and you actually feel like you're pushed into a pillow. No exuberant crying or laughing, no intense sadness that you can express, no exuberant joy, your feelings are suppressed. Because it also combates intense anger and fear or despair. And as long as you don't control it. Is it really necessary to swallow this medication. It's supposed to help you function as a normal human being.
Nevertheless, it is not always necessary to continue to swallow antidepressants forever. If you have learned to deal with your problems and if you really think you can stop, you can do so, in consultation with your attending physician. But don't do this all of a sudden, build it off. This way you also gradually notice whether you can cope with the emotions again. If it's not, don't stop unless your supervisor decides otherwise.
Once you quit, you will feel more vulnerable and your emotions will be more intense than when you were taking medication. At grief this is bad, but at joy it is a great feeling! It clearly has advantages, as well as disadvantages.
For example, after years of stopping, it can confront you with your vulnerability when you suddenly face an emotional situation. Your environment will have to get to know a different side of you and that sometimes causes misunderstanding to them. Why are you reacting so violently? Why do you get so angry or sad? Why are you exiting your unpleasures so exuberant?
You have become vulnerable, but also less inhibited, you have woken up, as it were, and no longer numb by the drugs. That will have to be accepted by your environment and you will have to understand that they don't know you that much.
Therefore, do not let yourself be tempted to go to antidepressants again, but show that you are strong enough to do without it! Let your surroundings do their best to get to know your new you, with all the emotions that entails!
It's not the easiest way, but you live much more consciously and feel much more conscious than taking antidepressants. But not everyone can do without it and that's why you need to think about it and let people think along with you, whether this is a good idea. But once you quit, take your new self into account and don't let anyone take that away from you by taking antidepressants again if you really don't want to. If necessary, say goodbye to the people who can't deal with your new you, because yes, you are who you are. Without being muffled in your actions, with emotions! #antidepressiva