That anyone who challenges the efficacy of antidepressants is either paranoid or ignorant of the people who have benefited from them. Yes, I am sure some of you were saved by antidepressants, but that does not dispel the tens of thousands of people who were effectively ruined by them.

Antidepressants cause short-term memory loss, impotence, apathy, and general dullness. Depression causes such things too, but most people who take antidepressants are not clinically depressed. Antidepressants induce the very ailments they purport to treat. Withdrawal from antidepressants induces emotional dysfunction, as does withdrawal from any addictive drug, and withdrawal syndrome is often confused for the resurgence of depression, making it quite hard to break the cycle of dependence that antidepressants engender.

Whenever people rush to the defense of antidepressants, keep in mind that they are of a misfortunate minority. Their condition is so severe that the negative effects of antidepressants are ultimately preferable to what they were experiencing before. Such people are of a statistical minority, and most people who take antidepressants are not better off for it. It is only advisable to sacrifice your cognitive edge when you are genuinely ill. Most people who take antidepressants are not genuinely ill, so they will have sacrificed their cognitive edge for nothing. But, believe me, many people become genuinely depressed after taking antipressants. If you wish to convert a circumstantial affliction to a chronic illness, take antidepressants! I emphasize once more that people who are already clinically depressed have less to lose on antidepressants if life is literally unbearable without them.

So, whenever people come to the rescue of antidepressants with glowing anecdotes, it is very likely that they are of a clinically depressed minority. Do not take their experience as representative of everyone.