Antidepressants Negative Effects
Effects of Antidepressants
Growing up, I have always been aware of prescriptions drugs and their uses. My mom has been taking antidepressants since she was a teenager and I have always thought of them as being a good thing. As I got older, I started to see the negative effects they had on her. She became dependent on them and could not function properly without them. Seeing her go through all she went through while on those medications made me question whether the positive effects would outweigh the negative. As someone who has seen the positive and negative effects of antidepressants, I want to find what other people experience. What is “common” and what more I can expect from these prescription drugs.
Since every individuals experience with …show more content…
Although I wanted to find the effects of antidepressants on their developing brain, there has not been much research done on that yet. An article on WebMD shows the effects of antidepressants in children (“Depression in Children and Teens – Medications”). The article only mentions one new negative effect of it, that being a slight increase in suicide rates. . Overall, antidepressants have the same effects on children as they do on adults. Although many people say the positive effects of antidepressants outweigh the negative, I disagree. The one positive is that if rids the patient of the side effects of depression. The problem with that is that it is treating the symptoms, not the condition itself. The patient will continue to be depressed when they stop taking the medicine, which is why they become so dependent on it. There are many long-term negative effects that I’m sure people are not aware of and will eventually …show more content…
Reading all of these different articles got me to think of it from different perspectives. Although there may be good in antidepressants, I have found that there are much more negative effects than positive. Though there is plenty more I need to know, the articles I found have me leaning towards my original position—hesitant of antidepressants. Many people claim it is helping, and it probably is, but that is only temporary. Once they become tolerant of the drug, as they often do, there is very little they could do after that. Even if they do not become tolerant, they could become dependent and need it to get through every
Growing up, I have always been aware of prescriptions drugs and their uses. My mom has been taking antidepressants since she was a teenager and I have always thought of them as being a good thing. As I got older, I started to see the negative effects they had on her. She became dependent on them and could not function properly without them. Seeing her go through all she went through while on those medications made me question whether the positive effects would outweigh the negative. As someone who has seen the positive and negative effects of antidepressants, I want to find what other people experience. What is “common” and what more I can expect from these prescription drugs.
Since every individuals experience with …show more content…
Although I wanted to find the effects of antidepressants on their developing brain, there has not been much research done on that yet. An article on WebMD shows the effects of antidepressants in children (“Depression in Children and Teens – Medications”). The article only mentions one new negative effect of it, that being a slight increase in suicide rates. . Overall, antidepressants have the same effects on children as they do on adults. Although many people say the positive effects of antidepressants outweigh the negative, I disagree. The one positive is that if rids the patient of the side effects of depression. The problem with that is that it is treating the symptoms, not the condition itself. The patient will continue to be depressed when they stop taking the medicine, which is why they become so dependent on it. There are many long-term negative effects that I’m sure people are not aware of and will eventually …show more content…
Reading all of these different articles got me to think of it from different perspectives. Although there may be good in antidepressants, I have found that there are much more negative effects than positive. Though there is plenty more I need to know, the articles I found have me leaning towards my original position—hesitant of antidepressants. Many people claim it is helping, and it probably is, but that is only temporary. Once they become tolerant of the drug, as they often do, there is very little they could do after that. Even if they do not become tolerant, they could become dependent and need it to get through every