Am I blind? I can't find a link to the article. Someone pls help?
Also, I recommend the book "Opioids and mental illness" by the New York Academy Of Sciences. It shows evidence of how opioids were used up until the end of WWII for a lot of different types of mental illnesses including schizophrenia. I never took APs as I was never psychotic, but I have depression and used to be on those nasty tricyclical ADs when I was a teenager and all it did was make me feel worse or as if I was wearing a chemical straightjacket. I remember when I was 20 and took Tilidine for the first two times I just felt sick, but then on the third time it made a click in my brain and I can still very vividly remember how I thought to myself "this is how it must be to feel normal". I do not understand why the hell they dumped the highly versatile and successful opioids for these dumb ADs?!?! It literally makes no sense. They say "well daz bcaose dem opis gon mek u adicktet". Do those idiots have any idea how horrible AD withdrawal can be aside from the fact that they have terribly dangerous side effects such as suicidal ideation (lol, why do we call them "ANTI"depressants again?!), serotonin syndrome (trust me, you do NOT want this), weight gain, insomnia, anxiety (oh thanks, now I need to take benzos too, to treat a new disorder I did not have before), etc.
I'd take an opioid addiction over an AD addiction any day lol!
Sorry if that was a lil off topic, but I just needed to get that off my chest...