Medications that change who we are
I have long wondered about this. In the Asian world, traditional Systems of Medicine focus on &quot;holistic&quot; treatment and the general public often calls Western Medicine, &quot;Allopathy with side-effects&quot;. I had intuitively felt that these medicines must have an overall effect on behaviour which may always not be obvious to the observer unless the difference between the before and after were stark and noticeable.<p>We really need a lot more research on this aspect of all commonly used medicines. A lot of our mood-swings, irritability, anger, anti-social behaviour etc. might be explained by this.