These drugs completely destroyed my life and my career, and turned me into an addict. They made me hate my life and want to kill myself, which I never did before taking them. They destroyed all my motivation and drive to succeed in life, and made me comfortable/completely oblivious to my life crashing and burning. I was extremely motivated, driven and got a 4.0 in college.

The withdrawal process is also insane and takes years of hell to do correctly, which doctors will never tell you. They also cause birth defects, heart problems, dementia, kidney failure and liver failure.

The idiots in the pharma industry have not properly tested or studied these drugs which literally rewire the brain. They are also not smart enough to understand all the variables of rewiring a human brain unnaturally.

Unless you aren’t going to survive the night or have a plan to kill yourself, I would strongly advise against taking them. These drugs are absolutely demonic and will rob you of years of your life.

>>33246296 (OP)
Ok

>>33246296 (OP)
What did you want advice about?

>>33252194
Whatever you can give me, but it gives me purpose to make these posts and hope the people reading don’t make the mistake i did

It's every parent's duty to teach their children that doctors do NOT give a shit about their patients and they should not blindly take whatever they're prescribed

>>33252367
You don’t blindly take it. You get pushed by all of society and therapists won’t see you if you don’t take the stupid pills. The system traps you into it and tells you they’re amazing lifesaving drugs.

>>33246296 (OP)
i withdrew from cymbalta over a spring and it completely annihililated 3 months of my life and triggered a breakup. But YEARS is a cope. Just go buy a drug scale and make your own pills and taper 10% every 2 weeks

>>33254789
It rewires your brain. How long you need to taper is based on how long you’ve been taking the drug. Your brain doesn’t magically rewire after long term use in two weeks.

Take an SSRI to avoid mania/psychosis if necessary. Otherwise don't fucking bother.

>>33255616
I’m not even sure that’s a good idea because ssris also cause mania and psychosis but I agree with the general gist of your post

>>33255626
If an SSRI causes that, you report it to your provider and stop taking it under direction. There are plenty of other options with pharmaceuticals where it's a trial and error game.

>>33246296 (OP)
This was my experience too. Was on SSRI's for about 4 years. During that time life basically passed me by while I watched. Couldn't have sex because I couldn't get it up while on SSRI's. You basically lose the ability to feel and instead just feel comfortably numb, but while you can't feel the lows, you can't feel the highs of life either.

I tapered for about 3 months and then jumped. Even after that taper period, I still had issues with motivation/anhedonia for a few months after.

Took exercise, eating properly and sleep to begin to correct it. I'm happy to say that now I'm fine - I actually just feel good normally now, like my baseline mood is almost like a slight buzz from drugs except it's pure/clean with no side effects.

>>33255702
They don’t do shit my guy, good luck getting a doctor to admit ssris are dangerous

>>33255724
I swear I could have wrote this
On SSRI's I was great at corporate jobs, off of them, I was great at dating

Therapy isn’t real anyway and these drugs are purely placebo

>>33256297
They’re not placebo. They have a strong placebo component in that doctors and therapists push them on you but they’re extremely dangerous. Doctors and Scientists cannot account for the complexity of messing with the human brain.

>>33246296 (OP)
Congrats on waking up your distrust for the system. You'll find that the people here who tell you what the therapists told you are under the spell of assumed authority of "experts."

There are no experts. The degrees are meaningless. The world is run by retarded children patting themselves on the backs over pieces of paper they paid for to lord over you.

Even if the world is evil and stupid, don't be consumed by it. Use your time here to uplift the truth and stand as an example to others of the power of awareness and trusting your instincts over the will of "experts."

>>33255724
Sounds like an amazing trade off. If life keeps doing an endless assault leading to constant lows, then you’re never going to even fathom highs because they’re just not happening ever.

>>33246296 (OP)
>They made me hate my life and want to kill myself, which I never did before taking them.
then why you started taking them?

>>33257639
Mild depression doesn’t mean you hate your life or seriously want to die

>>33246296 (OP)
Thanks for the advice

>>33252194
The advice board is also for giving useful advice, guy who always posts that comment

>>33258198
Never touch these drugs.

>>33246296 (OP)
spam schizo, take your antipsychotics faggot

>>33255724
>You basically lose the ability to feel and instead just feel comfortably numb, but while you can't feel the lows, you can't feel the highs of life either.
Want to chime in because that's a fing good description.
You just go through life and think to yourself "OK that happened" even if it is the most horrific thing ever

>>33258348
Yep. My entire life was falling apart and these drugs just told me everything was fine and made me accept conditions I never would have accepted. I’m 11 months off and consequences still don’t feel “real” like they used to.

>>33246296 (OP)
To me it's between writhing in pain due to absence of seratonin or experiencing daywide drowsiness

>>33260615
These drugs are demonic anon and nobody tells you shit about them. There’s apparently no plan to get the 60 million people taking them off of them.

>>33246296 (OP)
if your life was so good then WHY DID YOU TAKE THEM??? this post sounds so weird. you're life should've already been shit, duh, that's why you take the pills dummy!

>>33260907
I was going through a period of depression, was convinced by people I trusted I should give them a try after years of resisting. Just because I was depressed for a time doesn’t mean I wanted to have my life entirely and completely ruined by pharma drugs dude.

>>33246296 (OP)
Thanks for the heads up, I've always been sus of them, I confessed to my mom that I wanted to kms and she tried giving me some of her ssri's, glad I didn't now.

>>33252194
>What did you want advice about?
How to shove my size 13 boot up your fat ass.

>>33261091
Makes me happy to save you a lot of pain.

>>33246296 (OP)
I knew that, but I'm sorry you had to figure it out the hard way. Instead of an easy fix, everyone should be working on these.
1. Omega‑3–rich diet
2. Physical exercise
3. Natural sunlight exposure
4. Healthy sleep habits
5. Social connection
6. Engaging, purposeful activities