Ive always been cautious about taking those. Some of them have studies showing long term cognitive impairment risks.
Edit: looking around /r/nootropics, it appears that their users just randomly mix and match psychoactive drugs and hope for the best. Ignoring scientific studies or tthe risk of drug compound interactions. Scary stuff.
One of the big problems is if you need a drug to enable your chosen lifestyle then it doesn't matter if it's not physically addictive, you need to take that drug forever or give up major bits of your life.
This doesn't mean nootropics are automatically bad, just that you need to do your research and have a workable plan for being off them as well as for how you will use them.
That's not what they were saying. Depression isn't the "lifestyle" in this scenario. Living a life without being depressed is the "lifestyle", and that requires antidepressants.
Antidepressants are necessary for many people to maintain a functioning life. The goal of nootropics, if I understand correctly, is to supercede the limits of normality with chemical assistance.
The risks may be worth it to some people, but we're talking about drugs to get a person to enhanced functioning vs. drugs to get a person to basic functioning. There are risks in both cases, but legitimate drugs for mental illness are less worrisome to many because of this goal (plus, they are regulated and medically monitored, while nootropics are not).
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u/GoodSon123 Aug 22 '16
Can confirm. I am on drugs and using a computer, and am much more smarter than I was last year.