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Taking anti-depressants does not change your state of free will or cause you to be unable to decide right/wrong or real/not real.
As far as anti-D's go...if you're going to take them, get therapy as well or they are not nearly as helpful. It has been shown that therapy and anti-D's working together are more than twice as helpful than therapy or anti-D's alone.
But in a single answer to your question: No. Not in the least.
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More to the point, clinical depression is itself an altered state of mind, resulting from an imbalance in brain chemistry. It's been more and more shown that drugs are needed to restore that balance. Without them, talk therapy is no more effective than it would be for food poisoning. But you're also right, M. E., that the talk therapy is essential for any lasting change. In severe cases, there may be an ongoing need for medication, but often therapy can lead to discontinuance
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anything can alter your state of mind. Like music, cheese
, chocolate 
. It is just what is going to alter your mind to think upon good things, and what is going to alter your mind to do bad things?Similar threads
