For the more than 121 million people worldwide suffering from depression, medicating their disease with prescription drugs has almost become commonplace. In fact, the American Journal of Health reports that there are more than 2.7 million prescriptions written for Antidepressant drugs each year in the United States alone.
When depressed patient’s consult with a doctor or mental health professional, oftentimes the first treatment option they are presented with is an Anti-Depressant medication. This is an alarming trend; one that is especially scary as the side effects of these medications become more apparent and publicly documented.
The latest issue raised by the scientific community questions the effect anti-depressants have on our overall emotional state. These drugs may actually affect us in ways other than simply relieving feelings of depression.
In their new book, evolutionary anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University and psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson of the University of Virginia propose that anti-depressants not only curb our depression, but they also blunt our other emotions, including feelings of passion and love.
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