Antidepressants

Next week I'm about to start taking my first ever antidepressants I'm not sure what I will be prescribed yet but what can I expect? How long untill I "feel" it? Will it change me for better or worse?

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Surely someone here is on antidepressants im just checking out for some anecdotal stuff y'know.

Come on, shut your fucking mouth.
Just take them and you will and you will see whether you have any grave side effects.
Take them several weeks and see whether the side effects becomes less and any positive effects are noticeable.

In at least half of the cases they don't help at all.
All the turning into a zombie stuff that has been posted and will be posted is ridiculous.

The zombie symptoms are not hearsay. I have several friends who I noticed go into this state after taking antidepressants.

Emotionally damping depending on the exact ADs, but if you are dead insides already, you were a zombie before anyways.

antidepressants will delete your personality and NUMB your medial prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that perceives DANGER.
DON'T DO IT
REMAIN YOURSELF

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They take about two weeks to kick in, your personality does not change but you may have a headache/feel light headed a bit when first starting out or if you miss a dose. The people talking about becoming a zombie either have friends with piss poor genetics who are sensitive to antidepressants, or their friends were given MAOIs which are the harshest form of antidepressant that doctors are not supposed to prescribe at all until SSRI and SNRI options are exhausted.

Additionally if you are given an SNRI like effexor your legs may feel jello like or weak, and it will take a long time to get off. I wouldn't recommend that one.

They do nothing. Was taking them for almost a year and got nothing except for side effects.

How do i get my hands on anti depressants?
I've spent 9 long months hating everyday and feeling like absolute shit

I took Moclobemide as last AD before quitting.
And I didn't have any noticeable side effects or effects at all, neither when tapering off.

My BBB (blood-brain-barrier) must have a level of over 9000 defence.

You say exactly that to a therapist

How do I get to a therapist? Through a GP?
Also my boomer parents dont believe in mental illness and I live at home, wtf do i do?
And if i got that far as to reach a therapist how do they know im not just an edgy 18yo faggit?

How am I supposed to go to a therapist when no one in my life gives a shit and I don't have the means to get there myself

My family doc offered me Cipralex
>got a job instead

Fuck your family what have they got to do with anything. Just go yourself to the GP and talk see where it leads

im stopped taking mine today.
when I was on them I.
>felt nothing but still depressed just like couldnt feel it as much
>felt liek a robot
rather be deporessed than medicated man

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SSRIs are mostly B's psuedoscience who's benefits we're extrapolated without enough supporting evidence.
The number needed to treat for most SSRIs ranges from 4-30, but most of the credible numbers for the big few sit around 4-6
This means that if 4 people take them, on average one person will see positive results.
Weight this with the possible downsides and make your best decision. And if you don't notice anything after a week or two just stop.

Expect your sex life to go down the drain

Welcome to r9k

Generally people on here have zero sex life. Me included

Took Celexa multiple times and every time it completely shut off my sense of empathy. I literally didn't give a shit about anybody. When someone would tell me about something bad happening to them I had to pretend to empathize even more than normal. It made me feel like a zombie or puppet. I can see how it would be useful for someone who's extremely self conscious or has extreme social anxiety, but it would also dissolve any reward you feel from a good social interaction. Also I gained 50 lbs from it.

That sounds amazing I hope I get those affects.

Forget about jerkin off too

Ive had my dosage increased to 40 mg for prozac and still not decreasing my anxiety the only affect it has had has been a decrease in sex drive which frankly doesn't bother me as I have no woman. I'm apprehensive on trying another antidepressant since this one is one that doesn't cause weight gain my psych told me.
All Benzos do is make me sleepy so can't go that route either.

And if I was a drone, I would want to do that why?

And jerkin off does not help anything! I'm just watching and thinking about girls I will never get, in situations that will never happen.

thats pretty sad tho, why?

that was kind of what I was aiming for,
my plan of attack was to go full on zombie mode,
use that time to practice socializing and doing things I could not do socially,
then get off the medicine and be able to socialize without anxiety because I already exposed myself to it.

but as I said the only effect is loss of sex drive and I think maybey effecting me taste buds since all milk now tastes sour to me.
Also of note the few timse I can fap the orgasms are much more intense, like body tensing up intense.

>And jerkin off does not help anything
it helps prevent prostate cancer.

>I'm just watching and thinking about girls I will never get, in situations that will never happen.
its almost liek you should fap to anime girls.
2D pill

>How do I stop fapping to 3D?
Let me break it down for you man.
if you are having trouble this trick will work.
>How to quit 3D: right now you are conditioned to fapping to 3D here is how we break this habit.
>you are fapping to 3D video, fap instead to 3D images but you may need to do the following trick
>start fap to normal stuff you view
>half way through you switch to other material and aim to finish your fap session while looking at the target subject matter
>so, fap to your 3D porn video and then switch to 3D still images on /s/
>do this until you are comfy to just fap to /s/ and then start doing the same thing but this time with hentai
>now you can fap to 2D fine