“…The SSRI group reported significant reductions in 12 of the 18 aspects, including ability to cry, irritation, care about others' feelings, sadness, creativity, surprise, anger, expression of their feelings and worry, which fits well with our results. Our finding that the intensity of emotions, including negative emotions, is reduced, and that emotional responses are accordingly more easily controlled, fits with reports of SSRI-induced inability to cry, 3 reduction in irritability, aggression and negative affect 7 and reduced emotional lability resulting from cerebrovascular accident 8 or other brain injury. 9 In addition, our key theme of ‘no longer caring’ fits with several case reports and one case–control study of SSRI-induced changes, including apathy, indifference, and reduced motivation, in children, adolescents, adults and older adults.…”