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I don't know whether anti-depressants cause brain damage or not and even if they do is the risk any greater than any of the other risk factors that are out there? My question to anyone who fears that anti-depressants may be harmful is do you avoid alcohol, tobacco, street drugs, pesticides, antibiotics, otc remedies, herbal remedies (often the provenance of these is unknown), sugar, fat, artificial sweetners, etc, etc, etc? If not, why not because they can all be harmful?
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I *do* take herbals of KNOWN origin, drink alcohol or coffee (I try to limit the amounts though). Don't take OTC pills, or anti-biotic unless absolutely necesary, try to buy organic and try to avoid chemistry in food. I use limited amounts of sugar, don't smoke or do drugs (not counting very very occasional joint now and then). I try to live healthy.
The problem with these things is... they combine. If you wash down your Prozace with some diet coke and nom some "food" loaded with chemistry and pop a painkiller each time your head hurts a bit, drink hectoliters of coffee to get your body working after being hungover from the last night's sleeping pill, smoke and generally live bad... it's the combination what kills you, not a single thing. So imho, if you feel psyche drugs are helping you... certainly take them... but you have to live even healthier, because every medicine is rough on your body, no matter the benefits.
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