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If some antidepressants numb emotions for some people, couldn't they help with the fear of dying if you feel like that could hold you from commiting suicide if you decided to?
 
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most antidepressants have warnings stating that they can increase the frequency and strength of suicidal thoughts while you're adapting to them, but I don't think that has to do with numbing of fear and emotions. In my personal experience this "numbness" would lead more to a lack of resolve to plan anything, but it might also make you functional, thus more capable to enact a plan, but I wouldn't attribute that to lack of fear. Different people have different experiences with medication though. If you're talking about a lessening of the survival instinct, I don't think antidepressants have any impact on that.
 
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most antidepressants have warnings stating that they can increase the frequency and strength of suicidal thoughts while you're adapting to them, but I don't think that has to do with numbing of fear and emotions. In my personal experience this "numbness" would lead more to a lack of resolve to plan anything, but it might also make you functional, thus more capable to enact a plan, but I wouldn't attribute that to lack of fear. Different people have different experiences with medication though. If you're talking about a lessening of the survival instinct, I don't think antidepressants have any impact on that.

Thanks for the response