Antidepressants are like a chemical lobotomy. Ann Blake-Tracy told me that in order to suppress depression feelings, antidepressants have to suppress all feelings. Many related links are posted below.
*NOTE: Peterson lives in high latitude Canada. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is caused by low vitamin D and lack of full spectrum lighting, especially the lack of the blue spectrum, which blue blockers can make worse. It is easily cured by taking enough vitamin D3 (5,000-10,000 iu of a good brand), which blood tests can check (60-80 ng/ml is ideal) and full spectrum light bulbs. Low vitamin D should be a well known cause for depression.
31:40 PETERSON: “There’s a very long history of depression in my family, and so I used antidepressants for 20 years after I started suffering from depression, especially in the winter, so it was seasonal affective disorder*. It got to the point where it was debilitating. It hit my father as well, and hit my daughter and a number of first cousins, and aunts and uncles. It’s thoroughly populated on my father’s side.
But I stopped taking antidepressants 5 years ago when I changed my diet because I was also suffering from autoimmune disorders of various sorts. …
I also used an anti-anxiety medication after a particularly severe immunological reaction, I think to something I ate…. And then I suffered from complications that were extremely severe when I tried to stop using the anti-anxiety drug. So that propelled me into a terrible, terrible situation. I developed a condition called akathisia, which makes it impossible for you to ever relax, ever. It’s like being prodded by knives, like many knives. … The case reports indicate that people are driven to suicide ideation within an hour of akathisia onset. … I’m in pain pretty much all of the time. It’s quite severe.”