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Why is a person on an antidepressant not welcomed? A subscriber once sent me this message. And I thought about this during breaks at work. Really, why?

Antidepressants (and related drugs) help with depression. A person takes an antidepressant under the supervision of a specialist (usually a psychiatrist or psychotherapist), undergoes treatment prescribed by a specialist and feels an improvement in his condition. An antidepressant helps and allows you not to feel bad due to a lack of serotonin in the brain. At that moment, this person happily takes the antidepressant, over and over again, like food and water after fasting. But the more time passes, the weaker the effect of the medicine becomes. The patient and the doctor agree on taking another drug. The doctor selects the medicine individually.

And after a while we hear: “When will the effect begin?”, “They switched me to other pills, they don’t work.” “They were prescribed by a doctor to experience an adjustment period.” - “Then start taking them again at the same time, there will be the most dramatic effect.”

In this article, we will look at one of the possible scenarios for why the feeling of effectiveness from the medicine does not immediately come: what restrictions can help a person go through a period of adaptation to an antidepressant.

Until you start taking antidepressants, there is a monster living inside your head that turns your brain into mush with every thought. This monster constantly wants to feed itself and is ready to act for you and always against your common sense. It constantly feeds information into your brain that requires your immediate attention. Obsessive thoughts, worries about the past and future, criticism, devaluation of your feelings and desires, constant search for a solution to the problem, even if you are just about to go to bed - these are all the tricks of a monster.

At the same time, the monster constantly lacks fuel, because he has drugs instead of blood. These hormones and neurotransmitters are like fuel for the monsters in the human head. Where can you get fuel when there is none and you have to extract it day and night? Only from you personally, if you allow yourself to start using antidepressants. With every outburst of joy, pleasure, fear or pain, these substances are released, which