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The article says the medications dull their sense of reality further, and they cannot feel remorse any longer. But is that true?

I am not 100% positive, but I am convinced the evidence he presented makes a strong argument that it is at least partially (if not completely) true.

I thought the testimony of the woman who had take anti-depressants and was basically turned into an unfeeling and uncaring "Stepford Wife" who was numbed emotionally and spiritually to be plausible.

The antidepressants, she concluded, had "blurred the ends of the emotional spectrum, so that I experienced neither deep sadness nor great joy.

First and foremost, I approach this from a Christian vantage point, in that I have a Christian faith. Secondly, I think there is "value" in suffering to the degree that there is value in our nerve endings telling us to remove our hand from a stove. Physical pain serves a function in the human body - to wit, to prevent us from further injury by making us acutely aware of the damage we are doing to our bodies.

In the same way, the suffering we may endure from sinning or doing wrong serves a purpose - it lets us know we have transgressed.

Ever hear of a "seared conscious?" Liberals seem to have it in spades. Abortion.....perversion.....envy.....covetness.....etc...."No problem."

The possibility that psychiatric drugs could impair our conscience should not come as a shock. We know people do bad things under the influence of alcohol, crack and meth that they wouldn't do otherwise. Is it so hard, then, to comprehend that some legal drugs can also obscure or eliminate our awareness of conscience?

From the article:

She added: "In the beginning, the drug was good, because it enabled me to think rationally and come out of my basement. If I had used that rational thinking to get a grip on the sin that was pulling me down into depression, I could have dealt with it biblically, and been off the drug in short order. But I did not. I became dependent on those pills and was gradually numbed to the seriousness of my sin. By God’s grace, I came to the recognition that this drug could be stunting my spiritual growth, and that turned out to be exactly the case."