That’s not addiction. Addiction is just as much psychological as it is physiological, and goes way deeper than chemical dependence. Once you’re through the withdrawals of SSRI dependence you’re pretty much good, while an addict will most likely struggle for the rest of their life.
You come off SSRIs (with or without) tapering and get “The zaps” and tell me that’s not addiction.
Source: Guess what I fucking did last year.
That’s not addiction. Addiction is just as much psychological as it is physiological, and goes way deeper than chemical dependence. Once you’re through the withdrawals of SSRI dependence you’re pretty much good, while an addict will most likely struggle for the rest of their life.
Getting off of long term SSRIs was a nightmare for me and left my body broken in a bunch of whole new ways
you are describing “chemical dependence”.
addiction is more than that.
If someone smacks you over the head with a bat, is that better or worse if they strike you over the head with a bat?
That’s such an apt description.
Not all of them have that, I’ve been on about 7 SSRIs and have never had the zaps from stopping
The zaps can be fun sometimes
Sometimes I’m tempted to go off my meds just to see what that feels like
I’m not gonna do it but I like thinking about doing it