article_snippet: These medications can have more far-reaching effects than most people realize, blunting empathy, passion, and sensitivity.
article_snippet: Sadness and fear are not always symptoms to be medicated.
article_snippet: Anxiety and tension come foremost from the denial of emotions, from Anxiety and tension repression.
article_snippet: My patients want to feel better, but really what many of Anxiety and tension need is to get better at feeling.
article_snippet: Medicating yourself into complacency may leave you unshaken, but it also may leave you unfeeling and apathetic, making it impossible to address the causes of your pain.  