I’m making this post so other people don’t make the same mistakes I did. Celexa(SSRI) ruined my life.

I hit a rough patch in life but overall the “depression” I thought I had was nowhere near what I experience now. Not even close. My depression is 100x worse.

This drug absolutely destroyed my memory. I’m 12 months off and I still can’t remember my life at all like I just woke up from a coma. The drug gave me brain damage and turned me into an addict. I was on my way to “making it” in my field but they ruined my career. They ruined my health. I went from being fit to gaining 100lbs. They ruined my friendships. They made me totally okay with my life spiraling out of control. I never seriously thought about killing myself before taking these drugs, but now it’s all I think about. I racked up 25k in debt. I couldn’t even comprehend the damage they did to my life until I came off of them. I thought they were HELPING me. They turn you into a different person. They make you avoid your problems.

These drugs are extremely dangerous. In my opinion they should only be prescribed to people in psych wards and for a couple years max. You lose touch with reality on these drugs.

Please seriously consider the risks of these drugs. They rewire your brain. It can be a years long process to get off of them. They can destroy a promising life. Doctors will not tell you ANY of the risks.

I want to stop taking them but I don't know if I can handle the depression without them, worried I will spiral again and become a neurotic nervous wreck like I was beforehand

>>33274823
Read the website survivingantidepressants.org if you’re considering going off them. If you don’t do it right you can hurt yourself. I’d recommend a doctor’s supervision.

>>33274818 (OP)
I believe that only psychiatrists and neurologists should be able to prescribe psychogenic/neurological medication like SSRIs, after a full battery of diagnostics to determine that the patient actually has CLINICAL depression and needs the medication to counter-act a mechanical malfunction in the brain.

SSRIs are handed out like fucking candy to treat the symptoms of circumstantial depression - Maybe you're homeless, stuck in an abusive relationship and your dog just died. Sounds like being sad is contextually relevant and the circumstances leading to the emotion should be addressed for long-term change, yeah? Nah, just take medication to make you 'okay' with living like shit for the rest of your life, retard.

Y'know the closest we've gotten to identifying a congenital developmental factor to autism is in the mother's pre-natal gastrointestinal serotonin?
>maybe every other kid in this generation is autistic because we kept throwing permanently brain-altering neurological medication at the previous generation of women who were just unhappy because their place in society was shit and afforded them shitty circumstances

Sorry anon, I have some clearly strong opinions on the matter as well. I hope things get better for you.

>>33274845
Thanks. It’s extremely hard to function every day. I’m shocked at how well big pharma buries negative info about SSRI’s. My therapist told me all my withdrawal symptoms like extreme panic attacks and not having any memory were just my depression and that I needed to go back on them. He also knew less about withdrawal than anything you can easily find on google. I’ve never met a doctor who knew anything about withdrawal either.

I have been on sertraline for nearly a decade now, I don't know who I will be when I don't take it. Before I took it I was a complete shut-in and really anxious, low self esteem, eating disorder etc. I don't know who I am without it and I don't have access to a doctor who will understand - all doctors/consultants I have spoken to are absolute NPC's who throw drugs at everyone and can't seem to understand descriptions of varied mental states in any other words besides those written in their medical school textbooks. I worry that one day I will be unable to have a child - my biggest goal - because I will have to spend years in withdrawal from sertraline first and probably become an entirely different person to who my future husband married.

>>33274845
It's crazy I stumbled upon this thread. Around 15 years ago in my early 20s I turned into a hedonistic piece of shit and just became selfish. I got a great job making great money at the time, had a serious gf, a paid off condo, car etc. So I broke up with her so I could basically live a life of pleasure of drugs, nightlife, sex, etc. By my mid 20s I just felt horrible all the time, (basically because deep down I have a conscious and was struggling to cope with my previous immature decisions.)

Wouldn't you know it? I was prescribed a laundry list of different things, from Benzos to SSRIs. I was depressed, sure, but just over having to come to terms with my short sighted decisions as a younger man. That shit basically turned me into what OP described though. I literally just stopped going to work and stayed terminally online until I pretty much lost everything and had to move back in with my parents. Now at 35 I've recovered back everything but what's real weird is the memory loss. I wasn't even prescribed that long but I can hardly remember anything specific from the past 10 years or so. Just vagueness

>>33274892
Yeah these drugs fuck with your reward system. Consequences of your actions don’t feel real. You lose touch with reality.

>>33274845
I went to four different doctors between the ages of 16-24 who all prescribed benzos or SSRIs within the first 15-minute consult with zero diagnostics done. Literally "you need to start taking these immediately, you'll probably want to kill yourself for the first 2 weeks, but if you survive that, you'll keep taking them for years until you feel better and then we'll re-assess!"

You know what was wrong with me, anons?

I had a fucking 2x2.5cm tumor in my brain that was causing textbook temporal lobe epileptic seizures. The fifth doctor actually sent me for an MRI and found it immediately.

I'm actually glad that I got to watch my mother's brain melt on an ever-changing cocktail of sedatives, SSRIs and antipsychotics while I was growing up so I knew not to actually start taking any of the prescriptions (except for the short period when I was like 16 and kept eating valium to stay up and play TF2 lmao.)

The last time I went to a doctor about my mental health like 8 months ago, I specifically asked for a 'mental health care plan' - Part of our universal healthcare system that allows for government subsidized psychologist sessions. Every citizen is entitled to it, you just need a GP doctor to sign a referral. I told her that I had been unemployed and alone, by myself all day every day without friends or family for months and I just needed someone to talk to.
>No, no. You need an SSRI. Start taking this and come back in two weeks, then we'll discuss letting you speak to someone.

>>33274880
It’s crazy how little doctors know about withdrawal or the negative effects of these drugs. There is absolutely zero support system for getting off these drugs besides communities on the internet. These drugs are worse than meth and heroin in my opinion. At least you can get off those drugs, but SSRI’s have dependency on a whole nother level because they literally rewire your brain. I fucking hate this evil system that does this to people. Nobody finds out until they’ve already been on the drugs for awhile. It’s absolutely demonic what they do to people with these drugs.

>>33274901
I just drank cheap alcohol all day and never left my computer. I can't even really describe how it began or got to "rock bottom," but I can't even remember. Like at one point I was a regular guy and the next thing I know it's 5 years later and I'm surrounded by fruit flies and empty Seagrams bottles modding fallout 4 at 3am and perpetually arguing with nobodies on 4chan and reddit

>>33274907
So what happened with the tumor? Did you get brain surgery? How long did the recovery take?

>>33274907
Yes. The system is bullshit. The complete complacency and carelessness with which they hand out these EXTREMELY DANGEROUS drugs is absolutely demonic and evil. Good for you for never taking them.

>>33274923
I can relate. I was extremely motivated. I was always self improving and using my time wisely before these drugs. Now i’m a fucking wreck.

>>33274907
Ya know not a lot of foreigners realize this about America, but a lot of states have universal medicare now (universal healtchare). I'm in Michigan and it's literally the exact same spiel, it takes 1 single day to get referred to a state sponsored doctor and most the time you can schedule the appointment for the very next day. So easy to can do it online!

>>33274924
I ended up having radiosurgery (screwed my skull into a frame and then blasted 201 rays of gamma radiation into my brain) and found out last year that it's entirely gone! The only thing is that it was deep in the middle of my auditory cortex, and since my brain has basically had to shift to fill in the space where it was, my sound processing is a bit fucked now. Everything sounds like it's the same level/volume (too loud) and I can't hear my own voice (which is getting frustrating because often I'll think that I'm talking at regular volume and people can't hear me at all, but I'm scared of going in the opposite direction and being too loud.) but hopefully that settles over time because neuroplasticity etc.

>>33274945
Yeah dude, I'm Australian and it's great. I'm legitimately really happy to pay the tiny medicare tax if it means that other people get life-saving treatment like I did, because there's no way I could've even afforded the initial MRI by myself.

if I've been on ssri's for 7 years does that mean I should taper them for 7 years?

>>33274986
No. More like 2 and a half.

>>33274974
I was being sarcastic. Being able to privately get insured and pay for things wasn't an issue literally right up until Obama came in office.

>>33274986
>>33274993

Consult an expert medical professional first. These drugs can give you brain damage if you don’t do the taper correctly.

>>33274995
I dunno, man. The US generally seems like it's about to implode on itself, it's getting really hard to tell when y'all are being sarcastic or not.

>>33275053
I'm not trying to be insulting, but probably because you're young. I was born in the 80s, and by then it still wasn't completely uncommon for private practice doctors just to come to your house and you could pay them out of pocket.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531101/

Though this aired in 69 it demonstrates my point where the pediatrician just came right over

>>33275081
I'm in my 30s, my guy. I'm just not American and thus have no knowledge of your healthcare systems.

>>33275098
Eh if that's the case then you should know the "everything is unaffordable in America" stereotype is relatively new

>>33274845
Thank you for drawing the distinction between clinical and circumstantial depression.

>>33274818 (OP)
take ginkgo biloba. I forget the exact mechanism, but it basically reverses what SSRI's do. it's a 5-HT1A agonist which is what you want

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>>33274925
written like a boomer talking about heavy metal music, lmao

>>33277635
Heavy metal music is demonically evil as well. Have fun opening doorways to demonic spirits. I’ve never met a metal fan who was “successful” in life.

>>33274818 (OP)
>>33274823
>>33274845
You did not have depression. SSRIs being handed out like candy are because people who go boo hoo hoo, so le sad, come into their office and are neurotic messes as one poster admitted. Some yuppy making $150k a year LE SAD. Most people come in, have partners, good jobs, no real difficulties in life and are just have intrusive thoughts about sadness. Cry me a fucking river, here's a placebo pill for depression that actually is treating another mental illness that psychiatrists are afraid to itemize as distinct for fear of backlash. Put yourself in their shoes, a patient is convinced he is depressed and if you explain actually not really, the level of seethe and meltdown would be unreal.

If you were actually depressed, you wouldn't have had motivation to do jack shit and probably are destitute, unemployed, ruined and don't have motivation or enjoyment, making a psychiatrist go, hmmm this guy is actually fucked, which would go something like MAOI > SPRIVATO > MAOI > ECT. Wouldn't even waste time with NBRIs (nothingburger serotonin reuptake inhibitors). Probably a level of IQ influences prescribing decisions as well. Like an idiot with an IQ of 90 that can't into any discussion about how medicine works probably would literally be too stupid to follow dietary and drug interactions.

>>33279524
You have an incredibly simplistic view of the system.

SSRI’s are the default paradigm for treating depression. Depression is loosely defined by the medical industry. You walk into a doctor’s office and they have one way to handle your problem: prescribing you pills. No doctor is going to sit there and tell you why you’re depressed in the 5 minutes they have to spend with you. You think a doctor is going to sit there and listen to you REFUSE medication? That’s hilarious. They’ll tell you to fuck off in a polite way.

Want to see a therapist? Better take the medication, otherwise 95% won’t work with you.

Talk to friends and family members? They tell you to go on medication.

People visit doctors because they’re supposed to actually fucking help you, not ruin your life. Don’t blame people for naively trusting a system that brands itself as being there to help you.

took ssri's for a while when i was 16 then got serotonin syndrome when i took too many people then i just stopped going to the psychiatrist altogether, how fucked am i? after i stopped taking them i had my old life back (being depressed in my room 24/7) and shit's still the same

>>33279621
I’d need to know more about your situation.

>>33279643
eh i'm probably fine

>>33274880
I washed out on day 14, but it really is odd, the feeling that you don't know how you were originally. There was a website I found once, and never again, about how to properly taper off since doctors can be retards. Your actions reshape your brain, so hopefully if you get past withdrawal you will be a little closer to what you want to be.

>>33279753
survivingantidepressants.org is the website

Oh man…
I started lexapro again (1 mo now) after being off it for 6 months. (Was on it for 2 years). I got back on it because I’ve been unemployed and was too anxious to get a job (someone calling me for an interview would give me a panic attack). And right now I’m not anxious to work I just don’t want to do it, so I’m not applying. I weened off it because I was tired of taking a pill everyday and was vaping thc instead. I quit the thc 3 months ago though. Fuck I don’t know what to do.

>>33280702
Confront your anxiety. There are websites that will let you conduct mock interviews with peers, it may be a good way to get over your anxiety somewhat. You get to have the whole interview experience with zero stakes besides maybe looking dumb to a stranger.

If you have trouble sending out applications, the only thing that worked for me was being accountable to someone - I'd commit to have X applications done by a certain date, and on that date they would ask me and I would look like a lazy bum if I didn't meet the goal. Just the fear of looking like a loser was enough to get me started.

>>33274818 (OP)
Psychiatry is a pseudoscience.

>>33274880
>>33274818 (OP)
I was on Zoloft from 13 to about 19 years old. At age 19 I sought ketamine therapy and I weened myself off the Zoloft. I've been off SSRI's for around 4 years now, and I do ketamine occasionally for maintenance. Much happier.

>>33274892
>I can hardly remember anything specific from the past 10 years or so
>I just drank cheap alcohol all day and never left my computer

Man, could it be they slipped some of those SSIRS into regular store bought beer too? Because I drink it a lot every day and I have the same symptoms as you.

>>33280899
Part of it is negative overthinking, part of it is random occurrences of panic out of nowhere where I feel like I’m gunna pass out; that’s the real scary part that I couldn’t figure out how to deal with. Meds seem to take that away but I feel meh (more depressed?) otherwise

i feel you. i quit ssri's a few months ago and i can't remember pretty much anything that happened in the 2 years i was on them, not even things that happened before i started taking them. even after quitting them i still feel like a fucking robot. i can't properly feel emotions or empathy, i forget things almost instantly and i'm constantly tired. it's like the life has been drained out of me. at this point i'd rather be stuck with depression again, at least i felt somewhat alive. I'm honestly scared that i'll feel like this for the rest of my life.

>>33280904
This

>>33280904
Psychiatry is the study of how neurochemistry directly effects the brain's function. You're thinking of psychology, the idea that the brain is a magical thing fueled by fairy dust and well wishes.

>>33274818 (OP)
Good thread OP. I desperately wanted to make a thread about this since my bf has started taking SSRI’s and he’s a COMPLETE HUSK. He doesn’t laugh anymore. He isn’t properly sad anymore either. I’m not even sure if we’re in a relationship still since his love for me is so muted. He doesn’t call me pretty or anything anymore. He lost all passion in every regard. I want my bf back.
By posting this I can’t send the thread to him anymore but yea, terrible.

Do the fuck with memories that you make while on it, or do they zapp your previous memories as well?

>>33282108
Psychiatrists don’t know shit. The brain is too complex for humans to undersand and so many studies are fraudulent.

>>33282125
I’m not sure yet. They definitely rucked with my ability to retain information. I’m a year off and I still don’t have access to a lot of my memory. The time I was on the drugs feels like a blur.

>>33274845
> SSRIs are handed out like fucking candy to treat the symptoms of circumstantial depression
Because circumstantial depression can fuck with your brain chemistry until you're unable to feel anything other than depressed even when you have no reason to be. You lose the ability to pull yourself OUT of that shitty situation that is making you depressed, because you don't even have energy for the bare basics of existing. When cooking and getting out of bed is too hard, how are you supposed to summon the energy to get a job, or leave your shitty boyfriend, or pack your shit move into a flat that doesn't have black mould in every corner?
If you're suffering from circumstantial depression, you might need medication to give you that kick to get your head screwed on straight so you can make changes to your life. It's not supposed to be an excuse to STAY in that situation. You're not supposed to STAY on medication forever. If you decide to stay on meds instead of fixing your life, that's your own fucking fault. If you're in a situation that necessitates meds so you don't kill yourself, and you CAN'T get out of it, that's just bad luck. But if you don't take medication now, you are only putting yourself through extra pain for no goddamn reason.
If you need meds to cope, take the bloody meds. But do something about your shitty life.

>>33279405
Ah, yes. Because metalheads are unsuccessful losers. It has nothing to do with the fact that successful people don't associate with you because you are the unsuccessful loser, I'm sure.

Every time I see posts like this, or really anything on this topic, I remember the jew trying to argue that nothing was wrong with SSRIs on /b/

Gives me a chuckle now, but I'm sorry to everyone suffering.

>>33286443
Don’t tell people to take meds if they don’t want to asshole. You obviously have no idea hoe bad they are.

>>33286446
Lmao. Yeah because having hair down to your ass, cut off cargo shorts and a shirt with someone getting mutilated on it just screams fulfillment and success.

>>33274845
Psychiatrists are retarded authoritarian faggots who worship big pharma. They give SSRIs as first line treatment when it should be last possible line of treatment if not absolutely banned

OP, get a slow juicer and do a 5 day juice fast where you only drink raw fruit and vegetable juices and nothing else not even water

>>33274986
Depends on the person. Would say couple months at least.

>>33281546
You deal with it by feeling it then acting nonetheless; you don't even have to start with the biggest thing, ie find out the safest situation in which the anxiety manifests, expose yourself to it, let the anxiety come and just tolerate it

The more times you tolerate it, the more tolerable it becomes

>>33287351
>Psychiatry is wrong and bad, trust me!
>Oh, crippling depression? Just drink a lot of juice
The dunning kruger here is palpable

>>33287808
Nope. Way longer than that. At least a year at bare minimum.

>>33287868
>taking extremely dangerous drugs that rewire your brain is healthy

>>33287911
>Trust me guys, I heard Andrew Tate say on a podcast that medication is bad. Guys, please, just drink a bunch of veggie juice. Trust me, I found all of the data in a 4chan thread.

>>33287942
>drugs that make you suicidal are actually good for you

>>33274818 (OP)
I was on zoloft for OCD from ages 16 to 20, thought it dulled life a bit but idk if they really affected me that much. However I did quit them because I felt like they were blunting my motivation, but to be honest I didn't notice that much of a difference after taking them, I just felt like they weren't helping the way they were supposed to so what was even the point.
>>33274823
I was scared of that too but to be honest I could barely tell I was any different after taking them. I could try to say taking them or not taking them caused x y or z, but I took them at an age where I was changing anyway so it's hard to say

>>33287946
I'm not sure what sort of medical trauma you've been through in the past but you're just entirely, statistically incorrect. SSRIs, like all medications, have potential benefits and drawbacks. Sometimes people react catastrophically and sometimes people's lives are transformed for the better. Its up to each individual person to weigh those things and make the decision on their own. All of that being said, the statistical benefit of SSRIs on the aggregate for the treatment of depression and suicidal ideation is beyond concrete. It helps a lot more people than it hurts, objectively. Sorry if you took pills and it made you suicidal. That sucks and unfortunately it happens to some people. Regardless, your personal bias is irrational. It isn't based in reality.

>>33287973
nope. you’re wrong. these drugs increase chance of suicidality regardless of how you want to spin it to make them into a positive.

>>33287903
Where do you draw this conclusion from? I talked to loads of people and most can get off after couple months of tapering.
Years is the exception.

>>33287976
>nope. you’re wrong. these drugs increase chance of suicidality
The issue is you're just objectively incorrect by every metric. Literally every shred of data we have on the subject says the complete opposite. I'm not sure how to engage with your delusions. You don't live in reality.

>>33287981
THE PHARMA SHILLS ARE HERE LMAO

>>33287983
>data says the opposite
You’re fucking evil and I hope you burn in hell for pushing these evil demonic drugs on people you fucking shill. I don’t care what your retarded data says and you’re wrong on that point too because SSRI’s have a black box warning about suicidal ideation you fucking retarded evil cunt.

>>33274818 (OP)
Took some 'mild' SSRI for a couple of months and it was basically like being drunk without the obvious drunkenness. I stopped caring about what made me depressed in the first place and it removed all self consciousness from me. One day i suddenly pulled back control and stopped cold turkey.
I'd advice against taking these. Especially if you are aimless and have nothing else to pull you out of the hole. They are supplements to an proper method at best i think.

>>33287996
You’re right. They should be what gets prescribed when you exhaust every other option and only under extreme structure like regular doctor visits. Even then I’m skeptical because my own experience with them is so bad. After a while when you build tolerance you still have depression but you don’t know why and you still gotta take the pills. They are evil, evil drugs.

read the first half of Lost Connections if you want a redpill on the meme that is antidepressants and muh brain chemistry

>>33287868
Projecting retard. My prescription is not for depression, it's for OP blunted mind which he got from SSRIs.

And even if your dumb assumption was correct it would still be less harmful than SSRIs. You really are a retarded faggot.

>>33287973
You're a fucking retard. Nobody has studies on the data you're talking about. Most of the time when people on SSRIs kill themselves there is not even an attempt to figure out if the SSRI was the cause, so the basic data doesn't exist, let alone studies analyzing that data. What we know is that in the controlled trials by Eli Lilly on Prozac in healthy adults there was a significant increase in suicide attempts and succesful suicides + tons of anectdotal evidence to confirm this. You're not smart and you're not applying science, just your confirmation bias and authoritarianism.

>>33287983
You haven't even done basic research on this. Even before these drugs hit the market they were known to increase suicide risk BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THE MANUFACTURERS OWN STUDIES SHOWED.

6 years in Protracted benzo withdrawal.

My muscles always squirm under my skin, theyre always sore. I shake and am uncordinated.

I struggle to sleep, have brain fog, get neuropathy, get powerful anxiety attacks, have terrible depressive episodes.

6 years no benzos or alcohol.

Could I still heal? Maybe. I'm not as bad as I was the first 4 years. Will I fully recover? I don't know, I hope so one day.

>>33287988
>THE PHARMA SHILLS ARE HERE LMAO
I have tapered off ssri myself and I was active in the surviving antidepressants community for years. You mongrel.

>>33288216
The official protocol of survivingantidepressants.org is 2.5 years you fucking retard

>prescribed 100mg zoloft for OCD since 13
>no side effects, don't feel different other than less likely to spiral on anxiety
guess i'm just built different?

>>33288342
How would you have a context for what feeling different is if you’ve taken them since age 13? Are you 14?

>>33288351
33. as a experiment to see if I actually was having side effects I stopped taking them for about 4 months back in 2021. didn't experience any withdrawals, but started taking them again after life got hard and noticed my occasional bouts of OCD and depression were more severe. I also took half dose for a year back in 2019 and 2023 since I thought I didn't need to take as much as I used to but after a while returned to normal dose for same reason. based on that, it seems SSRI's work very subtly for me, I still have inevitable bouts of depression/OCD while on the 100mg dose but they feel more manageable. honestly my main concern was low libido but doesnt seem to have an impact either, despression seems to have a way bigger impact (wow who would have thought).

>>33288373
Going off for 4 months after taking them for 20 years wouldn’t give you noticeable withdrawals because you would still have them in your system and the half life is like 20-30 hours for most of the drugs

>>33274892
>>33274923
>be an alcoholic
>blame the SSRIs for your plight

Lmao. Every doctor who has every prescribed these will tell you NOT to drink alcohol

>>33289270
Quit defending a shitty broken system. Nobody is realistically going to quit drinking alcohol to take these drugs. And they shouldn’t destroy your impulse control and make you addicted to shit.

>>33274818 (OP)


I have multiple friends on SSRIs. Heres the problem.

The point in which you guys decide to seek out mental health drugs is when no one can seem to change your minds about alternatives except YOU. I don't know what its like to have "depression" win over your life, but if it comes to either you take a SSRI or you keep confiding in me about wanting to end your own life.. take the drug.

>>33292347
I agree with everything you said except taking the drugs.

I think it’s irresponsible to tell people to take them if you’ve never taken them.

The drugs shouldn’t be an easy way out for people. They ruin lives and in my case caused many, many, many more problems than they solved. MADE me suicidal. Most people aren’t serious about suicide. The drugs shouldn’t be available but gatekept so people don’t just try to take the easy way out by getting on these drugs. They are extremely dangerous.

>>33292523
I have a strong bias against them in the first place. However if the situation is my friend thinking about killing himself and HE thinks they will help after going to a doctor, go for it.

>Most people aren’t serious about suicide
Neither you nor me should be challenging whether or not someone is serious about taking their own life anon.

Also as far is the drug making you suicidal, one of the first things doctors tell you about these drugs is that if you have increased thoughts of suicide, stop taking the drug.

>>33292611
>if you have thoughts of suicide, stop taking the drug

This is an oversimplification. These drugs are extremely dangerous and I don’t recommend them, even to people serious about suicide, they could upset brain chemistry and push them over the edge. These drugs have very unpredictable results.

>>33292652
>This is an oversimplification
I didn't simplify anything. The sentence was meant to be read in its entirety.

>>33292703
well you’re a fucking fool then because these drugs destabilize neurochemical balance and increase the potential of people going through with suicide.

>>33292752
Please learn to read instead of getting upset and doing the same thing you are accusing other of which is oversimplification.

>these drugs destabilize neurochemical balance
You don't take a Selective Serotonin Re-uptake INHIBITOR because your "neurochemical balance" was believed to be stable in the first place...

>>33292779
okay retard. you don’t know shit. stop talking. these drugs kill people so keep choosing to be an ignorant fool. you don’t give depressed suicidal drugs that increase the risk of suicide. doesn’t and will never make sense.

>>33274818 (OP)
I've been on everything from Seroquel to Loxapine to Depakote to Xanax to Klonopin to fucking Ativan. I was addicted to Klonopin for over 10 years and got into so much trouble because of it. Now I take Ativan and just recently got in trouble with the law again. I have court on July 22nd. I hate my fucking life, man. Wish I never went to that psychiatrist.

>>33274823
maybe you need anxiety medicine instead?
>>33274923
same thing happened to me when I stopped smoking weed and got addicted to sex/porn, feel like similarly I burnt out my brain

>>33280702
Where would you say your socializing and self-esteem are, outside of career and peer standards. Just in terms of what you like about yourself and your abilities? Could help give you some ground. I'm in the same boat though I don't even have any vices, just afraid all the time and easily overwhelmed by analysis paralysis.

"They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen or diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from the literature of the whole world – all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their souls." - Jung

>>33292652
some drugs will give you the motivation TO commit suicide, when I learned that it scared me away from ever taking them

>>33292867
you’re a smart man

>>33292798
>you don’t give depressed suicidal drugs that increase the risk of suicide

Almost as if that what he's been saying for the last 3 posts dumbass.

>>33274818 (OP)
To anyone at all reading this: PLEASE get tested for sleep apnea. I went through over two decades of hell and antidepresant side effects only to be diagnosed w leep pne nd told that this is frighteningly common

>>33292652
>These drugs have very unpredictable results
Statistically incorrect. Factually, the results are very predictable.

>>33297046
wrong, pharma shill, they are incredibly dangerous and you are evil for defending then