these drugs are evil and will steal years of your life. they ruined my life, they destroyed my health, my memory, my career, my relationships and gave me brain damage, and if you ever want to come off of the drugs your depression will be 100x worse than before for a year to two years, maybe longer. Doctors do not know what the fuck they are doing when they prescribe these drugs. They are extremely dangerous and they will fuck your life up.

>>33341978 (OP)
If you think i’m lying or exaggerating visit the website survivingantidepressants.org or google “ssris ruined my life”

I was on Lexapro, Geodon, Busiprone, and a few other medications as a kid because my mother was a retard who didn’t realize I should play outside more often. I tapered off two years ago and still hate myself even though my life is fine. Is this why? What do I do?

>>33342641
I’d need more context as to why you feel like you hate yourself. But yes, these drugs are not good.

>>33341978 (OP)

Or better yet, read Robert Whitaker - Anatomy of an Epidemic - the best criticism of modern psychiatry and no pseudoscientific bullshit.

>>33341978 (OP)
>>33342641
Some of them are shit, some work well. It's a crapshoot. For me, buspirone is a miracle drug that prevents crippling rumination/overthinking if I take a little dose as-needed, zero side effects. I just take it when I get stuck in rumination and I'm good. But for my friend, he says it turned him into a zombie and he hated it.

I took some shit a decade ago and it made me into a hateful little gremlin, can't remember what it was at this point, didn't take another SSRI for a while after that.

I took paxil and it worked pretty well. Biggest benefit for me was it made me able to last forever in bed. The only problem was, if I missed a dose, the withdrawal effects were very bad.

Tried sertraline, it was okay but made my stomach irritable and my penis limp.

That's all the experience I've had. Only the one I can't remember was a truly miserable experience. I was a teenager and just took the shit my parents had them give me, for only 3 days. that's why I don't remember what it was. But I remember how it made me feel.

Overall, if you can survive without this junk, don't take it. But it can absolutely sometimes be beneficial.

I took sertraline improperly for a little while as a teenager (missed doses and shit) and yeah it just made me feel more numb and blunted than I already did which isn't exactly a miracle cure. Also the fact they disable the effects of certain other things tells me all I need to know imo.