2007-10-06 16:01:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Is your car "addicted" to gasoline? or does it take gas to get your car to run?
For some of us with depression, the old brain doesn't make the right chemicals anymore (for one reason or another) for us to be able to function. Anti-depressants act much in the way "starting fluid" works to get the old engine running again. For some of us we have no other choice than to use antidepressant medication as an "alternative fuel" because there have been such drastic changes in the brain that it will never make what's missing again.
I'm trying to say anti-depressants are NOT ADDICTIVE.
2007-10-06 17:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by Hope 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Addictive in the way that your body/brain becomes dependent on them and you need to be weened off of them if you want to stop. Not addictive in the way heroin or nicotine is where you crave the drug everyday.
2007-10-06 17:05:48 · answer #2 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could...i forgot what antidepressant it is.. but it also helps anxiety and OCD..i think it's paxil that you can get pretty addicted to sometimes. anything can be addictive. just take as prescribed and it won't happen.
2007-10-06 20:40:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!!! Absolutely NOT! They correct chemical imbalances in the brain that cause various disorders.
2007-10-06 16:19:28 · answer #4 · answered by Meg 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
patients using anti-depressants are rarely become addictive.
2007-10-06 16:07:03 · answer #5 · answered by csi83 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they are,and have serious side effects,to get off some of them you have to be weened off by slowly lowering the dosage.
2007-10-06 16:06:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes of course!
2007-10-06 16:04:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, you should syop it.... you go to other hobbies,, you will be relax soon and, later you are not depressed anymore.
2007-10-06 16:05:29 · answer #8 · answered by fe 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes thy do it,s like crack
2007-10-06 16:37:36 · answer #9 · answered by kevin B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.
2007-10-06 16:03:44 · answer #10 · answered by truthrules 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋