&gt; The author didn&#x27;t share a diagnosis, nor did he or she share the specific medication(s) that helped. Given that, how can you conclude that the drugs &quot;deadened neurons&quot;?<p>You mistake me for talking about the author. I was making commentary about the broad umbrella of psychiatric medicines.<p>Both I and my wife have taken those drugs, and the feeling in my body was that they deadened a part of ourselves. In my wife&#x27;s words, &quot;I still wanted to kill my self, but didnt have the will to do it.&quot; That&#x27;s the deadening; feelings were &#x27;grayer&#x27;, tastes were bland, colors were muted.<p>&gt;  It would not surprise me if the patient had the same concerns as you and I, but was so desperate, so hopeless that they were willing to take the risk.<p>And I&#x27;m perfectly OK with someone with informed consent taking substances. And I consider making use of wikipedia and Erowid as part of that consent, as well as doctors in your stead. I&#x27;m also not OK with doctors covering up, glossing over, or blatantly lying about problems that can arise. And from what I&#x27;ve seen, the psychoactive drugs can cause all sorts of side effects, some short lived; others permanent.<p>My wife and I have had this discussion; Under what conditions would it be OK to forcefully administer psychiatric medicines? Our discussions seem to show no good way to handle this, as it goes from the men in lab coats prior to the 60s, to the abuse of patients ending in the 80s, to simple imprisonment now.