SSRIs

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Day 1-
I took 50 mg last night and felt the effects almost immediately. Had difficulty focusing and my mind stopped racing as much as it usually did. I got drowsy really quickly and went to bed early. Got up a few hours later and had difficulty falling back to sleep. I'm at work right now and feel noticabley different. Not nearly as anxious as I usually am but also quite a bit spacier and with less energy. I'm going to dial it back to 25mg tonight and see if that is a better balance. I probably should have cut the pill in half to start anyway. I can definetly see why people would have issues with this stuff......

Last edited by Geekonychus on 08 Jan 2013, 11:11 am, edited 1 time in total.

SSRIS = ugh. They have never worked for me they frighten me, they have black box warnings.

However my gf claims they've worked for her and her mother so i figured it varies upon one's own brain chemistry or some psycho somatic effect.

Also, i have an Aspie friend who some fool doctor put on 3 different meds; Prozac, Celexa, Abilify (none of which worked and it doesn't make sense to give 3 antidepressants at once). My friend stopped taking his meds soon as he moved (his issues were situational)

Hi my son Glen is going to be put on a fairly new drug from Friday to that will hopefully help to decrease his self harming. Apparently it has fantastic reviews so I really hope this will work for Glen. I have forgotten the name of it but will try and find out again. If anyone has heard of such a drug that helps treat self harming please let me know, if your child/young person on anything like that?

Depending on what the cause of his self-harming is it could be one of numerous different drugs. In order to help you figure it out we would need more information. There are lists available on the internet of all the drugs of various classes so maybe if you saw a list you might be able to pick the name of the drug out from that list. I would recommend you make your own thread to try to find your answer, you're likely to get more responses to your question that way

"SSRI drugs are dangerous"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_XFfdkJXnM


The above features a psychiatrist who advocates natural treatments for depression instead of SSRIs, the dangers of which he outlines in the above video. He recommends 5-HTP as a natural alternative for increasing serotonin levels. Please watch the above video and do some research before deciding to take anti-depressants. They can cause serious problems. 5-HTP is much safer as a natural (nondrug) alternative.

I take Sertraline and I have found that it has helped in reducing depression and general anxiety. I've been taking it for about 6 years.

I'm on day 8 or 9 of 10mg Citalopram.

I've had this horrid headache. I feel like a chunk of my brain, in the center, top, right has just sort of... died?
I've also become emotionally numb, and extremely apathetic. I've been rocking side to side, which is weird. I've possibly had a hallucination earlier today.

Although I just realized I'm on a medication that has a bad reaction with SSRI's. Need to pester doctors I guess...

He's a doctor not a pharmacologist and he sounds totally ignorant. SSRI's do not cause drug seeking behaviour like cocaine And your not supposed to quit SSRI's cold turkey, you need to slowly taper your dose to come off fully.

Try to avoid watching BS youtube videos full of propaganda and ignorance.

Read research papers and studies done on SSRI's instead.

Day 2-
Dropped down to 25mg and feel much less wonky than I did yesterday. Had a rather successful date last night and I think it may have reduced some of the general anxiety around it and there was certainly no loss of sex drive . I assume that if it does happen it won't happen overnight. For those who lost thier sex drive, how long did that take to happen?

So research papers and studies funded by psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies--who have monetary incentive in pushing SSRIs onto the general population--are supposed to be a more reliable source of information. Tell me, what incentive does the doctor in the video have for pushing anti-SSRI propaganda? There certainly does not exist a financial incentive.

Yeah there's always an enemy right? The food and drug administration approves SSRI's for the use in humans...when pharmaceutical companies synthesize new psychoactive chemicals they go through rigorous testing. SSRI's help with mood and anxiety because pharmacologists designed them to target a specific biological function...marketing is separate dimension, focus on this fascinating chemical not the eviiiiil scarrrry pharmaceutical companies. Yes they are making money on a very helpful chemical that has been designed for a very specific purpose. Ask the pharmacologist or chemist who has worked on designing SSRI's if he feels he is just being used to make his company rich, and not actually doing goal orientated research to help people. This is science, not some sham...

And as far as his incentive? Who knows, apparently he thinks all drugs are evil and are the same as cocaine and heroin. He obviously has a lack in trust in science to better humanity and he's obviously not a scientist.

Last edited by Dreycrux on 09 Jan 2013, 5:19 pm, edited 4 times in total.

I was on sertraline or another ssri on and off for 7 years or so. Sertraline for about 2 years. They helped my anxiety a bit, but I still had panic attacks whilst was on them, and had more panic attacks and very bad upset stomach for the first months I started taking them.
In November 2011 I decided that as I'd found a psychiatrist who could help with the causes of the anxiety/panic attacks, I wanted to come off the ssri (sertraline) that I was on at the time. In March last year, following the taper my doctor gave me, I stopped taking them. It's 10 months since I stopped the sertraline and I'm still experiencing withdrawal effects and my emotions are very strong and scary.
In my opinion, SSRIs are like sticking plasters - they hide the symptoms but the problem still exists. Both the side effects and withdrawal effects can be horrible, so I'm never going to go back on them.
I'd suggest asking your doctor for help with the anxiety in the form of some sort of therapy, either in addition to, or instead of taking sertraline.

Then why do most psychiatrists push SSRIs for depression without first mentioning safer alternatives? Answer this question.

Because the natural alternatives do not work well or consistently, if they did I would be on them. The general consensus on anxiety boards and around the web would be natural remedies are effective for anxiety and depression regardless of the bias psychiatrists have or marketing incentive for SSRI's. That's just not the accepted belief, no conspiracy here.

Science is refined and targeted, nature provides the resources and we perfect our tools.

Natural alternatives have worked for a lot of people. You can find lots of evidence of that on the Internet. There is absolutely no harm in suggesting natural alternatives for someone with moderate depression. However, there is plenty of harm in prescribing SSRIs with their nasty side effects to someone with moderate/mild depression. And there is widespread belief that SSRIs cause more damage than good. Not amongst psychiatrists, however. Amongst patients. You know, the ones who actually have to take the drug.

There is no harm in suggesting alternatives your correct, but I only take SSRI's for ocd/gad/asd related anxiety not for depression. Side effects tend to go away after a few weeks as with anything. One way or another I had to choose to live in a world that was getting smaller by the day because of anxiety or actually live in the world with the help of SSRI's. Off SSRI's I am to afraid to even post on message boards or have an opinion on the internet. I have gained some life back. Before this I tried exercising, eating healthy, sleeping well, researching natural alternative which I still do but It was never enough. My mother is taking the same medication for short term help to get over a divorce and she says it has flattened out her mood and allowed her to function. For circumstantial depression and people without mental disorders I don't think SSRI's are a good option long term, they should be used short term to aid in therapy. As for us people with terrifying lifetime mental disorders sometimes it is the only choice for the long term...

Yes I have two options, to stay on it for life or deny myself relief and continue to suffer.