I'm doing 29 things
Depressed or stupid?
14 months ago
I’ve been fighting a mostly losing* battle with depression all my life. Major depressive episodes have thrown me off the rails and I’m still struggling to get back on. The problem with antidepressants is, they make me stupid. They dull my senses, they sap my motivation, they make me content with everything life throws at me, and they shrink my attention span to a nanosecond. I’m off them right now. My concentration is coming back, but my moods are getting progressively worse, my emotional triggers are getting more sensitive, and while I’m not content with my life per se, I’m not particularly interested in changing it, either. But I can read a whole book again, so. What to do?
*Or at least a stalemate.
