{"id":198,"date":"2026-02-09T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:12:13","slug":"the-sad-side-of-antidepressants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/09\/the-sad-side-of-antidepressants\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sad Side of Antidepressants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antidepressants, while great for getting my head above water, also kill a lot of feelings. I don\u2019t belly laugh anymore and I don\u2019t feel or experience joy. Instead, I feel the absence of all emotion. I realized this while sitting down at work to do a job I detest. It takes THC for me to truly be able to have a hearty laugh. It\u2019s amazing how good the laughter is and feels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish there were more effective treatments for major depressive disorder. The treatments that exist largely do not work optimally. Just newer drug formulations but little is being done to really study MDD. I wonder if that is because it\u2019s not \u201csexy\u201d or \u201cprofitable\u201d medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish I could be without these medicines but I cannot. I wish life could be easier but it is not. I\u2019m just going to have to dig deep into some energy reserves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antidepressants, while great for getting my head above water, also kill a lot of feelings. I don\u2019t belly laugh anymore and I don\u2019t feel or experience joy. Instead, I feel the absence of all emotion. I realized this while sitting down at work to do a job I detest. It takes THC for me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}