Has anyone experience with antidepressants? My Psycologist suggested

I just wanted to know if it helped or if someone had terrible sideeffects or something likr this

i tried them for a while, and while i didn't feel as depressed, i didn't feel anything else, either. it was impossible to be enthusiastic or even happy about anything. i imagine that's what being dead is like.

getting on them takes a month or two, and getting off them again takes about as long. i still feel really down at times, but i understand now that it's natural to feel like shit when you live in shit circumstances.

>>728534438
Currently on Lexapro, feel numb to most things compared to how I was before. Have absolutely no sex drive anymore though, used to have sex with my wife 3 or so times a week, lucky to fuck 2 times a month now. Did help me out of my slump that I was in but I am looking forward to getting off them.

>>728535363
the side effects as you're getting on them aren't that bad. nausea and some dizziness. oh, and complete loss of sexual function while you're on them. they could use Prozac in prisons to keep the inmates from raping each other.

>>728535601
>nausea and some dizziness.

> be me
> just starting on Prozac
> sick AF
> waiting at the bus stop in front of a butcher's shop
> turn around
> they had an entire skinned goat sitting in the display
> still had its eyeballs in

thanks, guys. i really needed to see that.

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>>728534438
Fookin great.

On Wellbutrin and fluvoximine and its amazing. I'm motivated, positive, happy and not suicidal!

My dick doesn't work anymore, and its super hard to get aroused, but I only regret not starting sooner.

>>728535517
The problem is, my live isnt that shit.
In general it goes pretty well but I still feel like shit.
I dont feel happy a lot anyway.

So you wouldnt recomend it?

Most people who take antidepressants regularly complain it makes them feel emotionless and hollow, and don't have any drive or motivation. They are just confusing their impressions based on how they were abnormal before, and now are normal, and most people feel emotionless and hollow and don't have any drive or motivation.

If you decide to start taking them, don't just up and stop taking them. If you do, you go more than a bit insane. Most of your "person suicides after long struggle with depression" stories happen when they just stop taking their medication, mostly due to the fact they are mistaking a normal mindset with being emotionless and hollow. Likewise, don't FORGET to take your doses.

Get ready to give up alcohol if you're serious about it. Drink alcohol with some antidepressants, and you'll straight up kill yourself on accident.

Your sex drive will slacken. That's because you're using sex (or masturbation) right now as a distraction from your uselessness and pitiful life, and once you get a pill, your brain goes, "Well, I don't have to use sex like that any more, lol." Likewise, other things you do "for fun" to distract you, you'll not feel like doing anymore (including some creative endeavors like writing and drawing and such). This can funnel into the whole "I don't feel motivated to do anything anymore." But I assure you, most normal people feel this way all the time. Most of the world doesn't feel like sitting down after a hard day of work and drawing a naked anime girl. So expect any of your creative endeavors to suffer.

Antidepressants are not a magic pill. They will not make the feelings of depression and suicide desires go away, they will just not make those valleys so deep, or so often. They just level you off a bit.

>>728536110
Sounds to me like you just need to get some good friends to share some experiences with.

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>>728535601
Does
> complete loss of sexual function
mean not getting horny day to day anymore or not being able to get hard + fap while being horny ?

>>728536262
You just don't get horny. Like, you don't even think about sex that much. It doesn't cause boner functionality problems, you just don't feel like sex in general.

>>728536110
Fuck you, I recommende the shit out of it. Prozac sucked, but part of it is playing with different drugs. My life is so much better due to those drugs. (Fluvoxomine and wellbutrin mix)

>>728536110
doctors like pushing antidepressants on patients because it shuts them up. they can't acknowledge that your life isn't what you were led to think it would be, so they just drug you.

antidepressants have a role for people whose brains aren't correctly balanced in terms of neurotransmitter re-uptake, but statistically this is a tiny percentage of the population.

if your life is shit because of circumstances, they won't help, because your life will still be shit, you just won't care.

>>728536124
My anecdotal evidence says every thing you just said is a lie.

I'm less aroused in general, on a physical level. I don't feel emotionless or hollow, and I am truly happy. I much more creative than I was before due to the fact that I have motivation to do shit.

Basically, everything you're saying is bullshit.

>>728536262
you get much much less horny. porn seems pointless, and even if you do meet a hot girl who wants to do it, you can't. you can tie elastic around your cock to simulate an erection, but you won't be able to come.

you don't need to ask why i'm divorced.

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>>728536428
Eh, I still get horny, but I can only really sex once a week. Once I cum, its like another week before I get aroused again.

These pills make me nofap champion!

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xanax

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>>728536689
Why are you divorced?

>>728536678
>go to thread
>start typing before there are any replies
>first four unique posts complain about either feeling numb or losing their sex drive
>make sure to say 'most people' and not 'all people'
>this guy comes along
>"herpa derp, this guy is lying, lol, everything you say is bullshit"
>he's the one guy out of five or six

pls dude, just pls

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>>728536583
First off, my life is/was great, and I was still depressed/suicidal. After drugs, I'm just happier in general. People enjoy spending time with me more, because Im positive AF

OP here
My psycologist told me, I should try small doses or natural alternatives. (I have no idea what those names you drop mean)
What do you think of that?

>>728537229
Why are you asking a bunch of obvious retard trolls their opinions? Obviously, you should listen to your psychologist if you trust him. Otherwise, get another psychologist.

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>>728534438
Don't , antidepressants fuck you up , and most like Prozac cause you to be more depressed and suicidal. They're designed to make you more open to therapy. Only pill you need is the red pill

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>>728537033
>Hurt durr, I'm an expert, only listen to me.

>I said most, so you can't disagree.

Don't kys, try antidepressants.

>>728534438
I've tried Zoloft and tumblers and quit both . when on them I had no libido.

I have Dr appointment wednsday I'm gonna try asking for Welbutrin

>>728537229
Mushrooms, they might help. If you're not in California or Georgia, grow your own.

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>>728537407
Fuck yeah, Wellbutrin!

Had citalopram, first dose didn't really work. Second dose did. Was on it almost a year. When I came off my head felt more cloudy. It was harder to focus perhaps.

I miss the clarity of the drug. I would recommend trying it.

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>>728537366
Actually, I'll have you know I am an expert. I'm the psychologist of a prestigious British school's think tank. You can disagree all you want, but unless you have a majority agreeing with you, every point I made is still valid. I think you will have a difficult time doing so, since every thread ever made on this topic is pretty much people moaning and complaining about how they don't have any drive anymore, or don't feel like having sex, and they're blaming both on the effects of antidepressants. My IQ is over 300, kid, just go back to playing your video games all day and living your pitiful and meaningless life.

also nice dubs bro

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>>728537544
>>728537407
Wellbutrin is something you should try, the first 3 weeks on it, I felt sorta like one of the immortals from pirates of the Caribbean, the skellies. I had no appetite, could'nt really eat or sleep unless I was super tired or hungry, and I had incredible urges to clean. My sex life improved. I would recommend it. I lost weight, my house is clean, and after that first few weeks, life is britty good.

They make life bearable by taking away emotions

You are pretty much a zombie

>>728535551
That's too bad. You should try something else though if it's not working. Weird how what works for some people doesn't for others. I started Lexapro in January and it's the best I've been in a decade.

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>>728537871
On a side note, my IQ is over 301, and I'm the head psycologist/doctor of all of Europe. I actually invented most of these drugs, when I was a child and I've improved on them since then. (I'm 103, but I looks 32, due to my great health.) Go back to your Mongolian weaving board and your Ataris.

>>728534438
I've only been on SSRIs and they've been pretty good to me. You might want to try them, if nothing else they'll give you she breathing space to figure things out

One of my closest friends killed himself a few days ago, & I feel like shit. He was special to me and now I'm left here feeling like I called him.

>>728534438
Might as well eat weed instead of using antidepressants.

Nope! Get yourself diagnosed with add and get some dexies. Antidepressants are shithouse.

>>728538314
weed doesn't go well with everyone silly anon :)

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>>728538248
I have a megadrive, you retard. Only idiots still use ataris.

>>728534438
I was on an SSRI (Sertraline) and it didn't really seem to help. I'm on an SNRI now, venlaflaxine. Anyone had any experience with the latter?

Panic/Anxiety fag here.
I take Lexapro daily and Klonopin as needed, and they both work well. The only downside is deceased libido, but I'll toss it to keep from feeling constant panic and anxiety. Couldn't even fuck anyway without a panic attack right as I was about to cum. I don't wish that shit on anyone.

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>>728534438


Alright! I think we have a decision! Try some drugs, if they work, great! If not, try other drugs, if those don't work, then get therapy, if that doesn't work, try ketamine, LSD or shrooms, if after all that, nothing, kys. Win/win/win/win.

Im on Zoloft (Sertraline) and its like night and day with how much better I am.

If one brand of an SSRI type medication doesn't work for you, what are the chances that others will? whats the difference between brands of SSRI tablets?

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>>728538419

Weed exists for a reason noob. Fuck anti depressants

>>728538635
There's a lot of difference between different antidepressants and they all have a different effect.

>>728536124
Aren't SSRI's meant to be extremely safe though? As in taking them with alcohol won't kill you? or is that brand dependant?

>>728538701
If their main function are all the same, then what makes them different, bar side effects?

>>728538847
Depression is different for everyone, hence there is no one cure.
In the same way that one kind of cancer treatment works for a particular kind of cancer, it won't work for another kind of cancer.
Our brains are all put together very differently, anon.

>>728539010
Yes but all our brains are baseline built the same, so I don't understand how if one SSRI would work, another wouldn't. I'm not questioning whether they work for others, but I don't really see how one can help me when another can't.

>>728535363
Celexa is great, talk about anxiety and get a low grade benzo - you'll be find anon

Make sure you are going through some kind of psycho-therapy too. Drugs on their own aren't enough

>>728538467
I tried a different snri. Helped more the zoloft, but same downsides.

>>728539244
brains are pretty complicated. I don't really understand why either. Ain't science weird?

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>>728539411
If life is pretty good, you won't need therapy. Just drugs.

>>728537977
Thanks. I already have trouble sleeping, but I'd accept that for a more productive life and less anxiety/depression.

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>>728538467
I have taken Venlafaxine. If your doses get higher then DO NOT MISS YOUR DOSES. It has a very low half life and if you miss your dose you will feel withdrawal effects such as dizziness, brain zaps, headaches etc.

Some people say it is one of the hardest antidepressants to come off of. For myself it lasted for a few days where I was basically doing nothing but sleeping, because of the dizziness and headaches. It was pretty terrible.

Also, the drug did nothing for the "depression".

>>728539731
I'm taking it for anxiety mainly, you know how they tell you to take it either in the night or in the morning, can these repercussions come if you forget to take it in the evening but take it the next morning?

>>728539894
Nah, you should be fine if it's just a night's worth of difference.

Fug

>>728540297
what side effects were you noticing when you were taking them? for me there's dizziness, sleep is cut down to 3-5 hours, head's cloudy and for some reason a swollen throat.

Find a way to cope without it, if you can.

Get a hobby, talk about your problems with a friend or counsellor, eat right, exercise, journal, etc. It sucks, but you can make depression work for you in some ways. After some introspection I was able to find inspiration there.

>>728540569
- Dizziness every other day.
- Much more frequent headaches.
- "Brain zaps" (But these mostly occurred when I forgot a dose)
- Initially reduced sexual desire. At first I didn't seem to care at all, but this gradually came back over a few months.
- I stopped eating snacks. I didn't try it, I simply did not have a desire for it during the day. I noticed this afterwards when I was looking at my spending history.

I went cold turkey and after the withdrawals stopped things haven't changed all that much. The snacking habit came back though, but the rest stopped.

It's funny, because I came off of it because I lost insurance and wouldn't be able to afford the psychiatrist visits or the meds. Nothing changed for me in the "depression" department, leading me to believe that I wasted a year going to psychiatrists to get help.

>>728537229
Cashews have antidepressant properties. No lie.

Ok I think I got what I wanted to know.
Im gonna look up some of the names you told, talk to my psycologist and probably try out something.
Thanks for the advice.

>>728538248
You forgot to mention your 14-inch cock

>>728534438

If you can get them or grow them, try psilocybin mushrooms.
a small (1 gram) dose daily for about four weeks fixed me right the fuck up after about three years of misery.
after that, when i begin to feel blue once in a while, that one gram dose set me straight

>>728541031
what exactly do you mean by Brain zaps? I don't think I've ever dealt with that. I've also noticed the reduced desire for snacking and such, I used to always eat trash or go to the shop and get shit but now when I walk into a shop I just feel like I have no place there, simply because that's usually the only reason I'd ever go shopping.

>>728536583
Check out this fag.

>>728541724
Brain zaps are very difficult to describe. It's like a shock goes through the brain with a physically uncomfortable feeling. I don't really know how to better put it.

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>>728534438
I've been on citalopram 20 mg for a year and a half. That's a half dose of the max 40 mg SSRI.

They work and they help things improve. They helped with my panic attacks and my crippling depression. It's extremely hard to see the light as a biochemistry student at a big 10 school.

I'm getting the point where I want off of them though. They hurt my sex drive a little but didn't get rid of it totally, it made me gain weight and makes it extemely hard to lose any (20 lbs) although I've been eating well under 2000 calories consistently, and it makes you extremely sleepy, especially when you drink booze.

Long story short, take them if you need them and they'll help with friends, anxiety, work performance and family, but don't use them as a permanent solution. You really don't want to be dependent on a pill for too long.

>>728534438
was on sertaline 100mg for about a year, felt numb but didnt realise till I came off them, guess they worked though coz I feel great now

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>>728534438
Didn't read the whole thread, so this might have been covered already, but here goes

Anti-depressants have no medical basis or proof of effectiveness that justifies their existence. There has NEVER BEEN a fair medical trial in which anti-depressants were more effective than placebo. They were just as effective as placebo, and both were only slightly more effective than no treatment.

But having tried them, I can tell you that they do affect your mind. For me, they simply dulled out my consciousness. I still thought about the things that were making me sad (in this case, it was the fear of dying, and the hopelessness of a death that lasts forever), but it didn't make me frightened or sad, just empty.

I dropped them as soon as I realized that the problem was not a 'chemical imbalance', but just my mind getting out of control with concepts I was never meant to question.

I smoked some pot (which I thought was making me worse, but it wasn't) and meditated, and realized that time is an illusion, and there is nothing to be scared of.

Now pot is not the cure for everyone, and some people should never touch it, but I guarantee that those pills they are pushing are not the answer either! Use your mental strength anon, and you will get through this, just as I did.

tl;dr "never trust anyone who tries to medicate you before they are willing to help you".

Good luck anon!

>>728534438

Ay-Ohh, I've been on 3 different anti-depressants now. I have what's called 'Clinical Depression' which means I hate myself all the time, not just after someone dies or I go through a really tough time. Nope, I actively hate myself every day and ritualistically engage subconsciously in self destructive behaviors.

I am now on 50mg of Amitriptyline and I feel a little better. First and foremost you should have a doctor that is not interested in giving you pills. That's hard to come by so I got lucky. My doctor is always against prescriptions but will make them if really necessary. He always starts me on an insanely low dose and ups it very slightly as needed.

I've only been prescribed Xanax once and it was a 30 day supply of 25 mg (normal standard dose is 1 gram). I was told 300mg of Amitriptyline turns people into zombies so being prescribed a fraction of that helps. Most doctors will just throw big doses at you to shut you up but my Doc always tries the bare minimum.

That being said, been on it for a few months now. Everything feels mostly the same, I've just noticed I don't dwell and ruminate on things as much as I used to. I still worry about all the everyday shit just not to the point of self-ruin.

I advise giving anti-depressants a shot if you think you are clinically depressed. Again I should emphasize everyone gets depressed from time-to-time but clinical depression starts as a child and comes back in cycles of self-destruction until it is addressed. There is a really big difference between a temporary 'wah-wah by gammie died and now i'm too sad' and a deep routed self-loathing associated with the real thing.

Effexor helps me but withdrawal sucks.

whatever you do dont go on prozac that shit made me want to kill my self

im currently taking
-100mg of zoloft
- 50mgseroquel for sleep
30mg vyvanse during day for focus

>>728541724
It's happened to me too. It's like a spasm that's really uncomfortable in your head. I kept wanting to shake my body because it's uncomfortable.

>>728543561
Thanks for the advice.
That is the post that got me the most.

Im just 20 and my life in general is pretty OK and nothing bad happend to get me in this state.
I dont know how to describe it but I was always pretty numb.
When my granpa died or my parrents divorced I didnt feel much.
To the outside Im always pretty happy and act as I think I should.
But on the inside I was always pretty numb.
Lately I get pretty depressed from time to time and I dont have any motivation to do anything I dont absolutely have to.
(Sorry for my bad english)

>>728543561
From what I've heard, straight up asking your GP or psychiatrist for a specific med will get them to do the opposite. I too have clinical depression, was on the full 200mg dose of sertarline but it didn't really feel like it was upping my mood at all, just feeling hollow. I might try asking for welbutrin as a lot of people seem to have positive effects with it. I'd honestly rather just get addicted to xanax and deal with the withdrawals than deal with this depression.

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I`'m a bit drunk and high
And bored
Someone here who wants to skype/ play cod for example?

I started on celexa 20mg for 4 months, moved to 40mg. Stayed there for a year, I wasn't depressed but like many I gained at least 20 lbs. Little known fact: celexa is also prescribed for premature ejaculation. God damn, I could last an hour in bed. The problem was, I couldn't fucking come in the end. It was like pedaling a bike up a never ending mountain, but never reaching the summit. I literally gave up like 4 times with my gf, and it was really disheartening.

Got off because fuck that shit, was ok for 6 months, got depressed again. Left GF cause she wanted me just for kids. Thank god I wrapped that shit up every time.

Tried fluoxetine x 3 months, it gave me serious side effects. Constant sleepiness to the point I would sleep on my lunch breaks at work rather than eat. The major was that I could hear my eyeballs move. Imagine the noise you hear when you close your eyes really tightly, or yawn. That's the tensor tympani muscle. Well, for some fucking reason mine went batshit while I was on fluoxetine.

On Wellbutrin 300mg xl now. It's p good. I kinda want to go to 450, but, in light of that I've been feeling better every month, with only a couple down days here and there. Also dick works again.

>>728535710
Talk to your doc. You can adjust dose or take with food to prevent nausea. Again, your doctor needs to decide that, though.

>>728534438

The right ones have helped but its taken a long time to find the right ones

>>728534438
I never need them, mostly because I feel 'depression' is a combination of physical factors such as hormones, sleep rhythm, excercise, foods etc.

If you get that under control, you'll feel a lot better already, I'd wholeheartedly recommend to focus on getting appropriate amounts of sleep

>>728543561
Good luck /b/