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Minds, Chemicals, Nerves: Depression (podcast)
“Run from what’s comfortable. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation.”— Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad RūmīIn my last course of antibiotics, we added Metronidazole, a drug designed to kill anaerobic bacteria. It has a long list of negative side effects and I experienced many of them. One of them was depression.I’d wake up depressed and have bouts of hopelessness. It would take me a minute to realize this was an induced state of mind and not a true reflection of my situation. The state was chemically induced…No one knows why SSRIs are effective or why they fail, but my experience shows…
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