#ssri withdrawal

[magnificentempress]

my possibly unpopular opinions on therapy/psychiatry

- Just like suffering is not inherent to womanhood, suffering is not inherent to humans. Just like it is not okay to just expect that women will be subjected to suffering, it is not okay to expect that it will happen to anyone and it's just the way things are.

- Therapy is not inherently wrong for trying to alleviate the suffering, but I fail to see the doctors acknowledging the fact that the suffering is a collectively shared experience, and suffering is caused by someone. Moreover it is the whole point of therapy to focus on just yourself, "take responsibility"(for the harm that was done to you?) and seeing what you can make do. Basically because again, doctors cant really tell their patients to go overthrow the gvt or divorce their shitty husbands. Thus endless copium instead of, yknow... something actually meaningful.

- Antidepressants arent inherently bad but they cant cure you. They are just psychoactive drugs. Caffeine, tobacco, cocaine, they all are psychoactive in one way or another, and your brain doesnt really care if the substance is legal, illegal or prescribed. It modifies the symptoms but it cannot actually cure you. Or something. If you struggle with depression/anxiety related issues, I would highly recommend that you try to look for a way to alleviate them that is not just you popping pills for 10 years in a row.

- Our society is purposefully built to fuck us up. Just like "dyslexia" is not a thing in societies that dont have a writing system, "ADHD" or "depression" or "anxiety" are non-syndromes, they show only in very specific circumstances. It is possible to reform the world so that it doesnt force suffering and disabilities onto people.

- Psychoactive drugs that actively alter people's neurochemistry and may lead to both psychological and physical dependency are catastrophically overprescribed and one day the big pharma will be held accountable for their crimes lol

- I repeat that I do not oppose psychiatric medicines as a concept. Psychiatric disorders fuck people up, I know it personally. BUT. Sorry but there is a difference between a socially-induced disorder like anxiety, and a disorder of a purely biological genesis like bipolar mania or schizophrenia. I dont think depression or anxiety are easy. But consider what, someone suffering from delusions in mania cannot CBT their delusions away, they basically have to be on meds. MAYBE think really hard of the pros and cons here. You are lucky to have a relatively healthy brain, dont wash it down the drain.

- Medicalization and profiting off of any suffering is highly concerning. The transgender pharma will also pay for their crime of persuading (otherwise healthy) people that they cannot exist and will literally kill themselves without unnecessary medications and surgeries.

- If you have agreed on me on the previous points but my opinion on transness triggered you, consider unbrainwashing yourself? Idk? Can't you put 2 and 2 together? These are literally the same kind of phenomena.

- I say it all as someone who has been on antidepressants for a long time, and also who knows many people who were on antidepressants for a long time. I've seen both huge benefits and huge debilitating side effects.

As a matter of fact I am also completely normal and can be trusted w

[tradflowr]

I’m addicted to SSRI’s.

I know. Gasp. Well, here’s the story.

When I was 13, I was sent to a counsellor by the headmaster at my school. He reported that I had low mood, was overly anxious, and was displaying symptoms of OCD.

I was a 13 year old going through puberty. I was a 13 year old girl who had been forced into the ‘top set’ at school and therefore was continuously held to an impossibly high-standard. I was a 13 year old girl.

The counsellor then referred me to my general practitioner, who in turn prescribed me a medication called Sertraline, and another called Propranolol.

My parents were convinced that it would be the best thing for me. I was just confused and annoyed that I now had to wake up an hour earlier than usual before school to eat breakfast, a meal that I usually skipped.

I will never forget the first week. I was a zombie. I felt no emotion; not hunger or thirst or sadness or happiness. I was constantly dizzy. I had headaches 24/7. I slept for 16-20 hours per day and was still tired whenever I woke up.

After three weeks of symptoms, I became ‘normal’ again. Not better than I was before starting the medication, but better than I was in the first 3 weeks of taking it.

I’m now old enough to realise that the medication that made me feel so terrible was the very same one that was later praised for making me feel so much ‘better’.

I’m now 20 years old.

I have been on a continuous prescription of SSRI’s since I was 13. And thanks to the doctor who has pressured me for so long to stay on them, I’m terrified to give them up.

Tomorrow I start the gradual withdrawal process. I’ve found a new doctor who understands why I don’t want to be medicated anymore and supports my decision wholeheartedly.

I know that God will be on my side through this.

Pray for me.

Thanks for reading. If anybody can relate to being forced onto prescription medication at a young age, I’m sorry. God bless you ✝️💖

[glossykris]

some of you guys like to identify as freaks for various reasons but the real freaks are these motherfuckers

[desultory-suggestions]

This is your reminder not to stop taking your meds! You are better because you are taking them! Ask yourself why you’re taking them in the first place, whether they helped with that at all, and how you can manage side effects. If the side effects are bad please do contact your prescriber and work on a new plan! But do not stop cold turkey, it will only make you feel worse!

[chaotic-historian]

I'm stepping out of my antidepressants (sertraline/zoloft) and have just hit a full week on the lowered dose, and I am Feeling Things again. The thing about SSRIs is that they help with the dark emotions, but they also take away many of the other ones, or take the clarity off them and make them blurry... the whole point is that the brain no longer has to struggle with regulating its emotions on its own.

Long story short, just spent an hour weeping about my childhood experience as a lonely, vulnerable autistic kid. And that's okay. That's normal. That's allowed. Withdrawals from SSRIs and other neuro meds are a real thing and can manifest in different ways, and it's okay to have them.

[gamergirl929]

Well, I've reach the brain zap stage of SSRI withdrawals, and for those who haven't experienced it, it's just as bad, if not worse than it sounds. 😓😓😓😓😓

[frodothefair]

I often look back and wonder if I should have started meds in the first place all those years ago, for all the trouble they are giving me now. (My illness is almost 100% iatrogenic). In the end, I probably did not need meds — I needed someone with experience to hold my hand, coach me through my days, and tell me that all would be alright, that I’d make it through my education and my training, that I was capable and that things were not scary as I imagined them to be.

Mr. Nisile: In other words, you needed your future self? I don’t think you would have trusted anyone else.

[tuna-core]

Medication withdrawals are wild. I stopped taking lexapro (not by my choice) about 3 weeks ago. At first it was physical symptoms, like being ridiculously overtired and sometimes nauseous and sometimes muscle aches, now I'm in the mental stage where it's anxiety, extreme sadness, rage at the tiniest thing, it's weird.

It's scary and tough, but I know I can get through this. For the first time in years, I'm actually feeling emotions again, like PROPERLY feeling them. Sometimes they're a lot at once but frankly that's because lexapro blocked my receptors for said chemicals, as it tends to do from what I've heard from other people. I feel like a person again, if that makes sense.

I dont feel numb anymore. I definitely needed it at the start (summer 2020) but after I left an extreme stress environment (April 2021) that's when I started feeling numb. And i thought that was NORMAL.

Anyway withdrawals big stinky but I'm gonna come out the other end better

[xkat-holstaur]

me: hmm ive actually been feeling really good lately but i feel like ive been a bit foggy. maybe i could experiment with not taking my antidepressants for one day

me 12 hours after making this decision:

[ilminnestrone]

Final Fantasy VII cured my PSSD

I've been deep down in PSSD, which is Post SSRI (a common antidepressant class) Seggsual Disfunction, for two years. That means my libido was simply non existent and I kinda had seggs with my husband once? Twice? in a couple of years and it wasn't even something special. No interest in seggs whatsoever. Never. For anyone.

Then we played Crisis Core. And Remake. And Rebirth.

All of them. All of those stupid characters were stupidly hot. I have a crush for every single bitch in there. I want Zack Fair's children. I could teach Cloud Strife some tricks. I would sing the Hallelujah for Vincent fucking Valentine. I could bury my face into Tifa's talents. Sephiroth can break my body whenever I want.

I send p0rn to our friends. I read smu7 fanfiction on the job. I now have quite a collection of h3nta1 fanart on my phone. My husband is now terrified because he kinda came to terms with the issue and he suddenly has a desperately h0rny spouse that just want to be shagged stupid.

It's frustrating but it's funny, you can make fun of me. The new me would say I give full consent to public humiliation.

[inbetweenis]

[realkaijuhavecurves]

Bought Baldur's Gate 1 yesterday, gonna use it to try to distract myself from the withdrawal horrors

[fluoxetinegreen444]

TW

Has anyone gained weight on fluoxetine? Like I'm gaining so much and I'm honestly sure it's fueling my spiral 😔

[gr8k877]

Since (a) my primary care provider quit and (b) I've quit my job, the main source of my anxiety, I've decided to taper off my SSRI. This is a trip, yo. Weird daytime energy. EPIC dreams and nightmares. Tingly feet.

[roaenexists]

i forgot to take my meds yesterday and today i am paying the price

[lifeofafrogblog]

How many people experience "brain zaps" from antidepressant withdrawals?