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When mental health treatment alters your core traits

My anxiety medication changed my personality and I am more functional but less creative and I do not know which version of myself is more real.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Medical interventions that improve functioning while changing essential characteristics raise questions about which self is most authentic.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined identity — building intentionally?”

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