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A new study came out this month in the Archives of General Psychiatry, asserting that Paxil reduces symptoms of neuroticism and improves extraversion in patients with major depression. In effect, it changes peoples’ personalities. This is taken by the researchers to be a good thing because:

“High neuroticism is a personality risk factor that reflects much of the genetic vulnerability to major depressive disorder (MDD), and low extraversion may increase risk as well. Both have been linked to the serotonin system.”

Um, OK. I’m not even going to get into how crazy it sounds to essentially promote a pill–known to damage sperm, lessen sex drives, induce suicidality, cause physical dependence, linked to some birth defects, known to blunt emotions–in order to alter someone’s personality. Isn’t that therapy’s job? The whole study gives me the creeps.

A much more straightforward account of the study can be found at PsychCentral.com.

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