The problem is that you kill the feeling, but the pain isn't the problem, that's just warning you about the damage. If you walk around on a broken leg, you're grinding bone on bone and eventually your leg will never heal.
Some people do have Fibromyalgia and the physical pain goes off for no apparent reason, but even that's a condition we don't know how to cure, but would prefer to if we did know how.
The problem is that if we're using the broken leg analogy, then that might explain why the United States, a country with a uniquely powerful child psychiatric drug culture, has things like school shootings -- One of the risks when you walk around on a broken leg is that a vein or artery gets cut and you bleed out internally.
that isn't to say that every single kid will go out and do it -- most would never -- but on the other hand, we know that virtually every school shooter was known to have major problems ahead of time. The columbine shooters famously were one signature away from being locked up for some of their behaviors. Oh, will you look at that, one of the two was on SSRIs.
Imagine for a second that you took someone who should be basically stuck in their room they're so broken, and then you turn the volume down enough that they can pretend to function. They're still broken, and the shards of bone didn't go away. They're just floating around and maybe everything's fine, but maybe one of those shards cuts something vital.
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@sj_zero @redwhitebluedude "The problem is that you kill the feeling [by taking many varieties of anti-depressants], but the pain isn't the problem"
That's not how they work at all, although there's enough variability in people I'm sure some have such an effect for some people.
"The columbine shooters famously were one signature away from being locked up for some of their behaviors."
Except you simply can't do that in the US since 1970 plus or minus, prior to commission of a serious crime. I guess you haven't been reading my comments about the authorities' complete absence of a tool box for people like the light rail stabber who they can't force into treatment? Plonk.
TL:DR: That school shooters are very messed up people most with prior referrals to mental health treatment should not be in the least surprising. Teasing causation out of correlation from this is well night impossible.
But I've known some people on heavy anti-depressants, and the higher the dose, the flatter their affect, the less they care about anything at all, forget about just emotional pain. It's fine.
Metaphorically, a state like that has to be emergency first aid. Some people with fibromyalgia do end up on opiates for the rest of their lives, but it's not heathy for their body or mind in the long term. If there was a way to just cure it, that would be infinitely preferable.