Quote Originally Posted by olstyn View Post
I've heard of some categories of antidepressants having that sort of effect. One person I know who's been on them said they basically clamped her emotions to a certain range. She couldn't have any real highs or lows, and was basically stuck on "blah." It's also quite common for them to clamp down on people's desire for "evening activities" as you put it. Getting off of them at least somewhat reversed the situation for my friend.

I can understand where you would feel like you have to lie about that kind of thing. It definitely makes you different from others in a very uncomfortable way. For me, that would probably fall under the category of "don't bring it up right away," which maybe constitutes lying from a certain perspective. (IMO, it doesn't, but I tend to be very private and somewhat compartmentalized, so my view could be a bit off from the average.)

I hope you don't feel like I've been attacking you here, as Mike41793 seems to think. I've truly been trying to understand and help.
Well, I've also been on and off of them since I was 5ish, so something was bound to get messed up. However, I've been off them since early 2010, which causes me to think that this is just me. Still, given that there is so little known about the mind, it's really hard to say. Overall, I don't feel attacked; if I did, I'd speak up

Quote Originally Posted by olstyn View Post
She commented in the thread and told all of us about her situation, and in my view, at least, sounded pretty depressed, so some of us who are curious by nature and/or generally try to help people tried to:

a) get more info

and

b) see if we could help by discussing it

I'm not really sure why that's hard to understand.
Nah. If I was depressed I wouldn't have been posting. I supposed that my overall demeanor comes off as depressed when I'm actually more indifferent.