>fell for the SSRI meme

>>25719547
im taking it for few months now
see no difference tbqh

>>25719547
sorry to hear that, anon

I was lucky enough to get off of SSRIs within 10 days of going on them. And I was only at the full dosage for 5 of those days, in the middle. As soon as I hit day 7 I realized I needed to get the fuck off those meds, so I did a quick taper and haven't taken any for a year and a half now.

My dick was completely numb to pleasure. It literally felt the same as a finger as far as tactile sensation. I had absolutely no sex drive for almost a year after being on those meds because I couldn't feel my fucking dick. It took 6 months for the sensation to recover to the point where I could even jerk off and cum, and another 4 before that actually felt good enough to want to.

>>25719547
When I was in the psych hospital they tried to get me to take every kind of med they could get me on. I denied all of them.

I'm glad I did. I've always had a pretty strong stance against mood stabilizer type pharmaceuticals. I don't have a very good reason for it beyond the fact that they just seem creepy and tend to make people into caricatures of faux happiness. They either become emotionless zombies or clearly-faking-it over-the-top optimistic happy weirdos. I've seen it happen to a lot of people and it always just seems so fake and creepy. I'd rather be a bit depressed and deal with it myself and occasionally binge on weed and booze and then clean my act up and get back into the normal routine of life than have a drug that just puts me on an emotionless auto-pilot.

I'm sure they've been beneficial for some people, but those things are way over-prescribed. Plus, I kind of like being sad. I'm pretty much at least little sad most of the time. Feels like motivation for doing better in life. Also I find it infinitely fun to just give into being sad and getting horribly drunk with friends or a pet and feeling all sorry for myself and the world and everyone in it. I feel like that's when I have some of my best introspective moments and also when I have a sort of empathy reset and consider how other people feel too.

>>25719547
but they worked for me
I think you just need to try a different one, or a higher dose.

>>25719699
I don't think you know how ssris work, anon. They don't make you stop feeling emotion or act like
happy pills,

I'm on 120mg Duloxetine a day.

Anyone got any info? Been on it for nearly a year now

No fucking idea what they're supposed to do to me.

>>25719740

I took them for a longer period of time and yes, they do numb your emotion. Furthermore they do so slowly and when you're emotionless you act like a freak and scare people away.

I literally could only feel rage and "fascination", like with art.

>taking pills that make you happy with your current shitty life
>not fixing the real cause of depression

You fell for a really bad meme my friend.

>>25719754
You should probably tell your psych that it does nothing for you. Not all SSRIs work for everybody.

>>25719740
This.
I'm on 40mg Citalopram (not sure what it's called in the states) which is the highest my GP can give me without sending me for specialist help.
It doesn't stop me from feeling like shit, it doesn't make me into a mindless lolz zombie, but if it'll stop me agonising over what shoes are the 'right' ones to wear for the day then I'm cool with it.

>>25719740
I know plenty of people on selective serotonin uptake inhibitors, and I'm sure that's what your doctor has told you, but I'm just reporting what I have seen in numerous circumstances.

They, like all drugs, have different effects on different people. Just because they work for you doesn't mean they'll have the same effect you're experiencing for everyone else. I prefaced this same argument in the beginning of the third paragraph of my post
>I'm sure they've been beneficial for some people

Also, I'm going to assume you aren't a pharmacologist so truth be told you don't understand how they work either, anon. So that's a bunk argument.

>>25719792
I forgot the "re" in re-uptake*

REEEEE

>>25719774
Pills are easy, anon. Fixing a natural lack of talent, having a shit drive to do anything, or becoming self sufficient is hard.
To the shills in this thread, reminder that not even doctors know how SSRIs work.

>>25719790
Citalopram made me feel really chilled out and sedated which was nice but it made my hair fall out, shitty side effects. Venlafaxine is more my thing, no real side effects except it does remove my feelings so it makes me feel kind of edgy, stops my stomach from churning with fear every waking moment

It's almost like you have to make a choice to feel depressed, or go on meds and have no feelings at all. I picked the latter.

>>25719781
Honestly, I don't care.

No tablet, pill or capsule is going to make me happy with my situation.

I just go to my doctor to make sure they keep be on benifits these days.

I've got a fucked up organ that keeps me from leaving the house, been going on 4 years now, left the house about a dozen times, all for medical shit.

Unless I can change that, I'm not going to be happy, locked away in my parents house all day.

I've learnt to be "okay" with it, but it's still the biggest block in my life.

6'2 with an above average dick and 6-8/10 rated face, wasted all my potential and I've just got to watch it slip away.

>>25719811
They give a labotomy without a knife

>>25719814
Sucks that you had such shitty side effects. I have a friend who is on an SNRI for bpd, I'm not sure I qualify for that kind of drug though.

I like the chilled out feeling that Citalopram gives me (I also have lorazepam for panic attacks but I only get a few pills at a time) but sometimes I wonder if I need something stronger since the suicidal thoughts are still there, but I'm definitely a million times better than I was before I was on SSRIs

>>25719547
are they truly a meme? i was going to start on them soon to give things another chance before i off myself
if they just make you content with your shitty situation, that's good enough.

>>25719790
>Citalopram

Stop now before its too late.

t.
was on them for a year

>>25720172
They are sort of a meme. They dont work much better than placebo, but they do work compared to nothing (since placebo works quite well as it turns out).

reminder every spree-shooter has been on SSRIs

trust the pharmaceutical megacorporations goyim they have your best interests at heart and want you to become better so you dont have to buy their products anymore heheheh

>>25719547
Go back to your doc.
Say it didn't work.
Then either try to get diagnosed for ADD or switch to Wellbutrin or Mirtazipine.

>>25720263
i'll just make sure i don't think about whether they're working or not. life insurance makes it like 5 dollars for a bottle of them, so it's worth a shot
i don't see the psych for another month so i'll probably forget they're active placebos by then. thanks anon

>>25720188
I've been on them for the last 3 years, I haven't felt any negative effects. If anything I've been thinking I need something stronger.

Could you elaborate on why they were so bad for you? (no sarcasm, just genuinely curious)

You faggots probably think vaccines are poison too.

>>25720306
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18173768
enjoy injecting your shaft with saline to get an erection, m8

>>25719853
I'm like the female version of you. Unemployed, social anxiety. I only leave the house at night so other people can't see me. I'm not a terrible looking girl, not ugly, not really pretty. I'm a 24 year old virgin because everyone scares me and that's another source of my depression. It's life on hard mode I think. I was diagnosed Bipolar but I really don't agree with that diagnosis but it got me drugs so whatever I guess. I spend all day watching Netflix documentaries, playing Mass Effect, and crying. I'd go to another therapist if I could find the will to go out anymore. I'm a sad sack.

>>25720419

What use is a erection when you're always going to be a virgin?

>>25720267
The thing is you cant give ssris to someone who thinks too much itll open their mind to the truth it happened to me and I realized what goes on and they tried to give me more drugs and 5150 me but now im out and I flush my drugs im not going to shoot anyone but im going to do something big and I think not just people who shot up schools but anyone who did something big something opened their mind maybe ssris

>>25719547
>want to die
>start SSRIs
>still want to die
>higher dosage
>still want to die

That's it? You just up your dosage until your brain is fried and you can no longer feel?

>>25720590
I'm guessing that's kind of the idea. There's always Electroconvulsive therapy which I hear is pretty effective but causes amnesia and is fucking scary in my opinion.

>>25720590
Get a drug that actually works.

Here's a hint: if it's not schedule III or higher (they don't send you to prison for reselling it) it doesn't work.

Lol @ SSRIs causing shooting rampages. Maybe the type of person who becomes a shooter is also likely to seek psychiatric help beforehand. Depression is also the most commonly diagnosed mental illness and ssri's are almost always prescribed for treatment. It's all statistics in the end. Correlate whatever suits your agenda.

just fuck all of you, i cant put my thoguths on how retarded all of your opinions are into writing. just know that everything you think and say and do is wrong.

im on sertraline and im feeling happier, but i also get disability benefits at the same time so maybe that is the true reason behind my happiness, either way im too scared to stop taking em

Just started lexapro, how is it? Also how can I be prescribed some adderall?

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I went to a psych last month because I'm tired of always feeling shitty and what not. She said I had depression. Booked me an appointment with a doctor next week. I think I might get prescribed SSRIs.
Should I take them? I feel dead all the time but I don't want to become an emotionless zombie even more than I already am. I don't want to get hooked for life. But I want to get better and go back to enjoying the things I used to enjoy.

>>25719650
>>25719699
wow you are really a retarded piece of shit.
they start only working if you take them at least 4 weeks.
they change you brain metabolism and that needs time.
but muh dick was numb.
you were absolute hypochondriac.
and why do were in the psych hospital?
i hope not because of depression,
you are one of these that only have meme depression

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>Start SSRIs three months ago
>Make me care less, so hated myself less, penis is kill, don't spend hours lying down wanting to die
>Better than normal for a while
>Now
>Starting to feel badly again although not as bad as at first

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>>25720796
lel, i don't think yours are working, anon

>>25720776
if you had depression you would murder to end this nightmare.
you should not take the ssri you should instead go to the psych again and say that you dont have depressin and only are a gay little faggon.
ssri are the weakest mildes antidepressants by the way.

>>25720799
You'll start to feel worse as your folic acid starts to get depleted, also your magnesium levels.

>>25720850
I didn't diagnose myself, the psych did. You seem like an awfully angry person. If you're an expert in depression, shouldn't you know it's not an ON OFF thing, and more of a sliding scale? And SSRIs still seem shitty, even as the 'weakest' medication which is why I'm wary of taking them.

>>25720875
Do they get lower with prolonged SSRI use?

How can I rectify this? How do I know if this is even the issue?

>>25720796
that's a really shitty poem, anon. it doesn't even rhyme

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>>25720850
>if you had depression you would murder to end this nightmare.
Middle school tough this year, champ?

Hey robots, need some help getting a benzo script. My last psychiatrist put me on SSRIs and they were shit so I stopped going over a year ago. Lately though, my rosacea which flares up sporadically has been causing me to get panic attacks. They're episodes of spontaneous inflammation that looks like extreme blushing.

I'm going to a new doc and hopefully try to get something like Ativan. I don't fit the profile for a druggie. What can I do to maximize my chances of getting a benzo? As a side note I used to do this with etizolam and never became addicted and used them very carefully. It's literally the only treatment for my rosacea.

All this fucking pharmaceutical bullshit. Just drink and smoke yourself into an early grave like the rest of us cause it never gets any better.

>>25720885
my post sure was too angry but its the stress accumulated in me, wasnt intend to insult someone.

>>25720723
Lexapro is all right. Was on it for a month or so. Didn't do anything for me. Hope it helps you.

>>25720954
benzos make addictive and because of the tolerance you build up you need more and more till you have to make a withdrawal one day.
they not suitable as med for longer than a few weeks.

>>25720839
Going on /POL/. Newfag detected. How was 2015? First year on 4chan I see

>>25721068


I said in my post I was on benzos off the books for about 4 months. Twice a week 1mg at most, only when absolutely needed. I had at least 200+ at my disposal at any given time and never once did them for recreation.

>>25720839
bb for bodybuilding?

>>25720981
This DESU senpai
The robot is a negro. I am a lonely person.

>>25721106
tell him you need it for the panic attacks and that you dont take it all the time,
only if you have strong attack and tell him the ssri dont worked for you very well. or else he will say same shit i wrote in my previous post.

>>25720284
I think that is reasonable to do but just be aware that there are side effects some of which can be pretty shit