SSRI's, discuss!

What is your honest oppinion of them? My doc gave me samples of lexapro.. I looked at a ton of things online and decided not to take them.. but I had another job opportunity coming, so after holding out on them(I don't know why I didn't throw them away like I was planning) I finally cracked and took half of a 10 MG lexapro/escitalopram.

I started feeling different immediately, kind of in a different state of mind, but still myself.. I was dead tired when I took it, and then I wasn't and had alot of trouble getting to sleep.

The next day(yesterday, had taken them the night before) I was more energetic, more social and happy.. but kind of dizzy.. I experienced the slight decrease in libido, some dizzyness and alot of off and on pain in my head.

I don't know if i'm going to take anymore, but i'd like some HF oppinions anyway if you would.

 

Completely unnecessary, but potentially useful in case of a serious depression, but never for long-term use. Should be used as something to balance a rather depressed person out, if used at all.

The real cure for depression is a change of environment, habits, and some productive behavior.

I would suggest getting a very time-consuming and engaging job that produces a direct result. Maybe some manual labor or something.

Plus, you will not feel the real effects of a SSRI for at least a couple of weeks after you start taking them, so whatever you felt the next day was probably a placebo effect, which further insinuates that it's all in your damn head.

 

i fucking agree...

 

Agreed. It takes weeks for the real affects to take place.

 

I am on Celexa. I like it, but it makes me hungry all the time. I tried Lexapro and don't remember why I went off of it. I am guessing weight gain.
I personally like SSRI's. I know a lot of people who overdue drugs and alcohol and prob wouldn't with an anti=depresant.

 

I heart your crafty woman thingie, hillarious.

 

This isn't always the case. Some people's brains react, block, respond and produce reallly quickly.

 

Never, ever, ever within a day.

Especially not with SSRIs.

 

Okie Dokie Pavel.

 

lol and especially not on a half of a pill immediately..lol

:smilielol5:

 

They can be temporarily useful for treatment of depression in association with therapy. I think they can be usefull for severe depression with therapy, and for SAD.

They lose their effectiveness within a few months and they become as effective as placebo for reliving depression. After a few months all SSRI's stop working and thats why you see so many patients switching their meds around and starting and stoping so much.

SSRI's change your neurology and release (prevent the reuptake of) chemicals (5HT) which are responsible for mood. This is so different from hapiness which cannot be found in a pill.

 

I take em or I kill others/myself

 

they mess with the effects of psychedelics thus I have no interest in them.

 

i went through a great deal of research and fear over taking lexapro. but i decided in the end to take them. i was tired at first, but that goes away and now i'm my normal obnoxious self. i figure i did a LOT of damage to myself when i was taking loads of drugs. it's not as much an emotional thing as a chemistry thing.

 

They ruin psychedelics.

They ruin sex.

Total fucking garbage..

They just bury crap that’s all.. Do some real drugs and expose your problems deal with them and move on.

¼ of shrooms? ;-)

 

they dampen your sex drive for a while, i won't deny it. but i will never take psychedelics. that way lies madness.

 

cause all those people are mentally stable.

 

I was prescribed them before and never went to actually get my prescription filled, just because I wasn't interested in taking them. I don't think people should take something to feel better.. they should DO something that makes them feel better.

I think all doctors dealing with those who have depression should require their patients to work out an hour a day, for one month, and then come back in to report how they're feeling. I'm willing to bet a lot of these depressed individuals feel better, look better, etc...

I'm a firm believer that physical exercise is the best cure for depression.

oh, and keeping a journal. writing all the bullshit that's in your head down on paper.

 

yeah, that's always a good idea. writing everything down. like people don't go nosing through your shit and cause more problems than you need to deal with. can you imagine? i've lived with room mates and my mother. nothing but trouble and snooping and spying and fighting.

 

hey I don't know. my parents aren't very nosey........
writing is very therapeutic though