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Depression, Serotonin, SSRIs, Psychiatry, Mental Health & Social Media | Joanna Moncrieff | 88

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Are the Drugs Having a General Numbing Effect?

There are some papers showing that people who report emotional numbing are also reporting the same sort of sexual side effects. So it just seems sort of plausible that that the drugs might be having a similar effect onn our general sensitivity to the environment, whch would include our emotions. And i don't think those two things have been perfectly well teased out,. But there are a lot of people who describe emotional numbing. It is reported by lots and lots of people. Its not just reported by people who aret, you know, feel that they're a bad thing in being harmful to them em and and er.

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