Not quite. I have only seen one person taking antidepressants detached from reality. It was an adverse reaction to them a very bad adverse reaction indeed. A scientific reaction called Serotonin Syndrome. I've also seen them help persons. Both my wife and I can't take any form of antidepressants due to neurological damage. She has clinical depression and please spare me the she needs to get right with GOD sermom. That is not the issue. Far from it in her case. She's had far more on her platter than many likely could ever withstand.
As for me I have what is called General Anxiety Disorder triggered by several life long neurological disorders affecting sensory processing. It is not cureable. But it's non life threatening though. Both of us are long time users of Xanax in her case 27 years in mine close to 18 years now. I thank GOD for Xanax as it allows me to function without continuous seizures. I'm also a former PTSD patient. Several events put me into it the same time the anxiety disorder became a serious issue.
Depression comes from many things it can even be caused by ones thyroid gland or something as simple as a UTI. It can also be ones brain chemistry or even a portion of the brain not functioning properly. The problems in getting finding the origin often come from doctors due to their own time constraints and extensive testing cost placed on the patients end not being able to find the root cause if it can even be found.
I will say this much. Depression along with the meds needs to also be treated with counseling by someone trained in treating depression which takes years in most cases. It may even be life long for some.
If people are detached from their true emotions (by being drugged)-—they are detached from reality. I think you missed my point!
I am talking about subjective diagnosis—not when there is deduced medical issues, thyroid problems, etc. which can be located and treated. I am talking about the subjective diagnosis which labels people with no physical evidence
other than emotional traumas which they can’t “get over”.
Emotions exist for reasons. You have to get to the root of the emotion, not cover it up with drugs.
And—don’t rationalize the God part with me....read C.S. Lewis-—or the Bible—Job had much more reason to hate God and resent life, than your wife or you ever will have.
Understand Theology and you can understand that you are the most lucky person on earth because of Jesus Christ, and you will bask in great joy (and your wife will too). Life on earth is always short, nasty and brutish as the atheist Hobbs claims-—only God-Fearing people understand how unimportant this life is compared with eternity which gives meaning and vitality and hope—even if they are in prison and being killed like Boethius and Pastor Bonhoeffer. Get over yourselves.
Try it-—I know. It worked for me and CS Lewis and millions of other people. Better yet, read Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” with your wife. There is profound insight into God and the Wheel of Fortune——Life. Get over your emphasis on youself-—put it where it belongs-—in the glorification of God and you and your wife will literally be in heaven. I guarantee it.