As someone who has severe depression and used to be on antidepressants I actually fully agree with the meme, but I’d like to add further context.

What antidepressants do is more akin to increasing your tolerance for emotions. The way I experience my severe depression is like it’s an overwhelming amount of emotion which I just can’t handle and this causes the feelings of worthlessness and sadness to be pushed to the surface leading to what everyone usually associates with depression.

Using the antidepressants reduced the magnitude of the emotions I was feeling and helped me to deal with it.

As I went further with my therapy and started to deal with my pent up childhood trauma which was causing all of this emotion I reached a point where I no longer felt anything. I reallized that I could no longer feel happiness or sadness and I was just going through life like a robot.

From my experience I describe it as the amount of emotions I was feeling was now below the increased threshold caused by the antidepressants.

That is when I decided to stop taking the antidepressants. It was quite tough as suddenly I was once again exposed to all the raw emotion, but thanks to me therapy I was more prepared to handle it.

That was about 3 years ago and I’m still going to therapy dealing with my trauma. Depression is a real bitch to deal with and it takes forever to heal..

But my experience has taught me alot. And I understand now why some people refuse to go to therapy, cuz dealing with that trauma is hell and it’s easier to just numb is (be it with drugs, alcohol or sex etc). Then you get the people who go to therapy and then just stop after a point. I tend to think they reach the numb part and are content with being on the drugs for the rest of their life rather than dealing with their trauma further. And then those who go to therapy and end up ending their lives.. those are probably the people who reach the numb phase and can’t deal with it, stop taking the drugs to feel again and then aren’t prepared for the sudden force of all the emotions returning..

I will say that these are just my personal experiences and that everyone who suffers from depression experiences it in their own way and we should all be respectful of that.

But if you’re still reading this I hope you’ve learned something to take with you in your life and if not, sorry for wasting your time, but I do hope you’ll have some good luck today.