Antidepressants to treat grief? Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes

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112. you seem to be really thick about the fact I was talking about my Mom and 6 other people

even though I mentioned her, and them. But whatev.

Mom's depression started more than forty years ago, from intense grief form losing three of her children. Thirty plus years she suffered, tried all the older anti depressants available back then, and bam two months of prozac and she could act like a human being again and leave the house. She was already in the throes of Alzhemers and still deeply depressed. So, SSRIs are very different.
Like you, she sort of believed she deserved a grief filled life because it was her natural state.
She was wrong. She didn't know it could be any different until it was.

It's a shame my brothers tried to cure their sadness with the bottle, because every year it gets worse and brings more pain to all their loved ones. I'll be thrilled if they don't mow down any innocents before they die. I love drinking, but you don't feel better when the high goes away. Often it makes depression worse. It's classified as a depressant. We've all seen enough people crying and acting out of intensified grief while inebriated. So, dumb advice there.

And the 6-7 other people I know who take or took SSRIS for a period of time are coping and thriving. Every single one of them says they never imagined that they would have the lives they do know without it.