What Makes a Person Who Take Antidpressants Different From a Crackhead?
Question by Adifah: What makes a person who take antidpressants different from a crackhead?
Aint they both trying to escape ths realities of life? Am I as a bipolar taking drugs no better than a tweaker, pothead, or crackhead?
My sister says it the same thing. And thus I have NO right to look at crackheads wrong. What should I say? She is right?!
Best answer:
Answer by Fin ufiik
The crackhead uses it to fix his own mistakes. The depressed person uses it to fix natures mistakes. One brought it upon themselves, and the other didn’t. The crack head isnt depressed and is at a level of 0, trying to get to 1. Youre at a level of -1, trying to get to 0.
Answer by Mathieu
Antidepressants are not addictive, cocaine, marijuana, Heroin, and certain other drugs are.
Secondly I doubt you or your sister think a diabetic needing insulin or an asthmatic needing an inhaler is “wrong” or at all like a “crackhead”. An antidepressant is not a happy pill, all it does is help correct a problem (eg depression, anxiety) and help you start feeling normal. Using recreational drugs or abusing prescription medications with an abuse potential results in things like euphoria and helps people to escape their life. Over time used of a controlled substance can lead to addiction (however it does not always lead to addiction) which means a person has lost control of their ability of to stop taking the drug (due to a psychological dependence). But the essential aspect of addiction is that the persons drug use causing them harm yet they continue to use the drug. This is not a concern with antidepressants because it does not produce the reinforcing or provide the rewarding effects as a drug like cocaine.
Also I doubt your or your sister are doctors, whereever she is getting these ideas is not at all accurate. If you need to take an antidepressant there is nothing wrong with that and it does not mean you will need it for life.
And why would you or your sister look down to hard on cocaine addicts. Like depression, addiction is a true proven disease. It may be easier to just look down at addicts and think they are weaker or in some respect less than non-addicts but the fact is most addicts would stop using if they could without going threw terrible discomfort and if they could better manage their problems.
So what should you tell your sister? Frankly I would tell her that she is not correct and that you need to do what is best for yourself and not live or decide what to do because your sister thinks she knows something.
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