I didn't know current psych propaganda is completely denying that antidepressants can hamper an artist's ability to create. "It should make unleashing your creativity easier! If you can't create, you're probably just experiencing emotional blunting, and you can ask your doctor for a doseage change."
Antidepressants can worsen psychotic disorders, cause regular nightmares, and cause/worsen dissociation. It's actually really common to experience skill loss, skill regression, or acquired aphantasia. It's not a matter of mood or mental health. It's about how the medication affects different processes in your brain.
Instead of LYING to patients so "creatives" don't exercise their right to refuse treatment out of a fear of losing their outlets, we need to have an open discussion about not only the risks of antidepressants but also the ways you can cope and adapt to these side effects long term if you need the benefits of medication.
Antidepressants made my dad unable to make art anymore, which is why he refused to be medicated. Antidepressants did the same to me, but I had to figure out how to deal because I was prescribed an SNRI for a chronic pain condition, not mental health.
I've never been able to recover the art skills or creative process I had, but I've been able to relearn some basics and develop new ways of drafting and creating that accommodates my acquired problems. I wish I could talk to other people like me instead of being drowned out by "there is no difficulty creating on antidepressants in ba sing se."
