Does the medication cause depression? Or was the person already depressed due to having acne so bad it needed medical treatment? Either direction seems reasonable to me.
That said, he was careful to who he handed it out to, and we decided against it.
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That being said, the before/after pictures that get posted in the accutane subreddit are mind blowing.
It's a testament to the power of post-structuralism or something.
Everyone knows that feeling depressed is deeply wrong.
Medications that can cause depression are often prescribed for serious illnesses, like debilitating mental illness. They don't always cause depression, and the small risk of temporary, treatable depression is determined by the doctor and patient to exceed the risk of the condition that's being treated.
But many other drugs can cause these sorts of symptoms too including anti-depressants paradoxically.
“Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.” -Homer Simpson
I will also suggest alcohol can trigger depression - but that is a claim that is ripe for debate and not well accepted.
Alcohol can also "treat" (in the sense of suppressing symptoms) anxiety and depression, thus leading to a downward spiral since it tends to make these things worse, thus you get into the cycle of "Oh I'm feeling anxious, better have a beer - oh, now my anxiety is worse now that I have sobered up, better have more..."