Want a Personality Make-over? Try Paxil

This headline caught my eye, because it was so absurd: Antidepressant Paxil May Also Improve Personality

According to the researchers quoted in the article, Paxil not only relieves depression, it can also make patients less neurotic and more extroverted. That's actually kind of interesting, but again I wonder how these changes in "personality" were measured, and the article doesn't say. 

It also seems to me that reliving depression would make a person more extroverted. I know that's true for me. When I'm depressed, I can't interact with people. I want to just curl up in bed. 

Anyway, the article interested me because I've been on Paxil for almost 11 years. It helped bring me out of a major depression, and has helped keep me stable since.

Was I neurotic before Paxil? Who knows?

Read the article: Paxil May Improve Personality

@ Jeanne Sather 2009.  

Comments

[JBBC]

What an interesting link -thanks for posting. It is also refreshing to see someone posting on the benefits of anti-depressants, which often get such bad press!
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