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- May 16, 2020
While I don't think someone being on these meds will cause them to harm anyone and I definitely don't think it's a valid way to judge anyone; they absolutely can make you feel extremely numb, depressed and vile. This is usually because they are taking dopamine antagonists which literally destroys your ability to feel happiness at all and make you generally angry at the world and want to say offensive things that trigger people. Perhaps Ethan was feeling particularly upset with his perceived political enemies that day and just wanted to say something that would anger them or cause a fight?I do think that some of these drugs, in certain situations, can make you numb to suffering and turn you into basically a psycho. I'm not sure Ethan was joking. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. I wouldn't call the cops seeing that but some people take shit seriously I can sort of see it. The guy is taking wellbutrin to "lose weight and have more energy". The two things exercise does. He's obviously fucked in the head.
I have had more than one person tell me when they started taking anti-depressants it numbed them both from their depression but also from empathy and excitement. That they don't feel the same when someone dies or gets hurt etc. it's all numb.
I've had friends who I didn't see for a long time then met up with them and could tell in their eyes immediately something is off, they tell me all about how the drugs have changed their lives. One of them killed himself. The others I am afraid of.