Know someone on SSRIs? Get them off now.
Anti-Depressants Kill Curiosity, and cause depression and autism.
Curiosity is a neurological process driven by spikes in the pleasure transmitters serotonin, dopamine, opioids . Spikes in pleasure transmitters occur while learning, and this creates a reward system that drives curiosity.
SSRIs create a constant increase in Serotonin levels by inhibiting the neuron's re-uptake function.
This constant increase causes depletion of serotonin levels, preventing major spikes which drive learning
The overuse of serotonin diminishes the effectiveness of serotonin / dopamine based reward systems
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/333128/antidepressant_apathy_syndrome/
>Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been reported to induce an amotivational or apathy syndrome in both children and adults. Despite detrimental social and financial consequences, AAS often goes unreported and undetected.
Anti-Depressants deplete Neurotransmitter levels
http://www.drkaslow.com/html/neurotransmitter_depletion.html
>As the level of intersynaptic neurotransmitters increase, the Monoamine Oxidase (MAO) system is stimulated and increases the breakdown of neurotransmitters. If you do not increase the nutritional intake of serotonin and norepinephrine precursors in patients that are being treated with antidepressants, the net effect is further depletion over time.