And you say this despite my personal first-hand experience that I was helped by Paxil? I knew what it did to me. It reduced my level of emotional excitement. It may me not care enough to kill myself that day.
It wasn’t the only thing I was doing for treatment (excercise, discussion therapy, prayer) but it was the only drug I was taking at the time that could have effected my emotions and perceptions.
And it wasn’t difficult to quit. When my doctor started putting me on high blood pressure medicine, I stopped Paxil without doctor approval because I was worried about drug interaction. I took Paxil every other day for a week or so and then just quit cold turkey. No side effects that I could notice.
So you’re welcome to believe all the propaganda you have at the ready to defame this medicine. All I have is my personal experience that a) I was helped by it, b) I stopped it on my own and c) it probably helps at least some other people with a particular type of brain chemistry depression issue or it never would have been approved by the FDA.
I willing to accept that it doesn’t help everybody, especially because people were misdiagnosed. Depression is a tricky thing to treat and it is still not well-understood.
I’m sorry for the people who weren’t helped by it but I don’t accept that medicine is flawless. Science tries to help but it can’t help everyone every time. That’s life.
Thousands of other people’s suicides are not an acceptable trade for your “feelings.”
And why do you keep referring to “brain chemicals?” when the Serotonin hypothesis became untenable at least 20 years ago?