The internet lied to me about medication

I hope I can get meds that help with my problems
If not I'm unironically going to jump in front of traffic
I'm just very concerned they will fuck me up. What if I become a whole different person?

The people who take these pills and experience good things on them don't go on the internet to give them rave reviews, they just enjoy their lives. Those that experience side effects or have them do nothing will of course bitch about them because it was a bad experience, the vast majority of people do benefit from these provided that they need them.

There is a downside though, taking them for very long periods of time can cause them to stop working or make you up your dosage, leading to dependence and withdrawl.

>Then, it was just no emotion at all. Never felt sad, happy, or anything.

What about fear? Ruminating? I think what causes some people to off themselves on these is the emotional numbness

sorry to hear user, thanks for sharing your experiences with me and I didn't mean to discount your experiences, I know that it just doesn't work for some people. it's been working so far, but I'm well-aware that it could happen to me and not end up in a good spot.

have you gone back to feeling how you did before the lexapro?

>What about fear? Ruminating?
Nah, I don't remember that being an issue. I got off of them after researching more about brain chemistry and the physical dick issues at the beginning made me uncomfortable.

>have you gone back to feeling how you did before the lexapro?
That was a couple of years ago I quit. Now I'm still mostly depressive and have no drive, motivation, sex drive. Nothing entertains me either. Anhedonia is great...

That's a common misconception from what I understand, although I'm sure it's possible. SSRI's are supposedly super subtle when they do work most of the time, and it's not a personality change type of thing. Anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers might make you spacey and a drugged version of yourself from what I understand, but it can also help some. It's a risk and you have to be at peace with that going into it. I'm still scared even though it seems to be working.

damn so these pills also make it so nothing scares you? sounds like a super power

tell me what makes these SSRIs work. nobody can give an answer because the chemicals aren't understood, and yet the research can tell you exactly how brain chemistry makes chunky rocks of real MDMA work

>jump in front of traffic or take a pill

i dunno user

The Drugs are for people who cannot fix their issues.

Your life will be shit before and after the drugs if you don't change anything.
It's the same thing with muscles
If you don't stress muscles and give them a reason to grow and become stronger, they atrophy and become weak shells of their former self.

I am not an anti-medication fag, but they are not a fix all solution. You have to go through dozens of different types and often times you don't give them enough time to work properly.

So many fucking things that could cause any sort of aliment.

In the end we're a sinking ship long lost at sea.
Trying to dig out the water furiously, without asking ourselves why we even care if we sink.

It's better down here

I might have to take something for anxiety or depression, but the main thing I want to get medicated for is ADHD and those kind of meds are known to change people's personalities.
I'm not saying it's a choice between them, I'm going to kill myself if I start taking meds and I'm still not a functioning human being

Anyone here got out of effexor?
Got 300mg prescribed for anxiety but all that happened is that I feel depressed now, I'm too anxoius to meet the doctor and I don't trust him, I went from 4 pills to only 1 but I'm unsure how to quit completely, if I stop taking it for a few days some fucked withdrawal effects happen

This is op, and I don't take effexor, but I read somewhere online about a guy who was having trouble getting of of it, and he would split the capsule and take out some of the beady looking things each day more and more for a more gradual taper. I have no idea if those things are what have and effect on everything but he said it worked for him idk.

>a few weeks
You need at least 6 months to be able to discern the extent of the effects. Right now your mind is just numb so of course you fell better.

>300mg
holy shit that sounds like a high dose

That's a good idea
I just want to get fucking drunk again, I need some relax

Started with one pill and went up
funny how it had absolutely no effects on me

I felt numb before taking the medicine, but I'm feeling a bit less so now. I agree though, time will tell. My doc wants me at a higher dose because that's typically what works for ocd, so it's going to be a process

>not being apolitical on the hermit board

You're just feeling a different kind of numb. You'll get used to the new numb and feel just as dead inside

this doesn't even make sense user

You've had a shift in your perception. You'll get used to it and the drugs will lose their effect and then all that will be left will be the unsolved underlying problems, the dependence, and the side effects.

feeling numb is better than being so depressed and anxious that you want to die

dude, sorry if that's what happened to you, but I haven't really had a shift in perception at all. I'm still a negative relatively anxious person. the underlying problem is that my brain isn't producing the right things at the right amounts. I certainly don't feel the need to turn my tv off and on 9 times before I leave my apartment because of some deeply traumatic event in my life. my brain is just stuck on being anxious and depressed no matter how many positive holistic approaches I take.

This is why I think ssri's are overprescribed, I realize it doesn't work for everyone with issues, but I feel like there's a large amount of people who have shitty lifestyles who feel relatively bad and then take an ssri to fix all of their problems and get bitter when it doesn't work. I've exercised to the point of injury, tried eating well, given up all alcohol (and I don't use any other drugs), etc. nothing worked. This shit may end up not working in the end, but it is now and you really can't say for sure what will happen in my case.

you need to make certain lifestyle changes to help aid your mental health. but usually that's difficult and takes a lot of energy so people with diagnosed depression or anxiety disorder resort to their old behaviour. medication helps, but only a bit. consistency is the hardest thing to achieve. yes, you might have those lifestyle changes for a few days, weeks, months. but you always relapse to old behaviour.

I've found much more success in QUITTING shitty activities (drugs) than starting new ones. you then have time to start doing new shit.

I used to get panic attacks, and what helped me was...it's gonna sound stupid as fuck, and it literally makes no sense, but I kind of accepted them instead of getting into medication. yes, I took xanax/bromazepam a few times in my life. and it made me feel amazing - in a way that I could actually function without worrying about my norepinephrine disbalance or whatever the fuck causes panic attacks. I knew I would be hooked to that shit, so now I just have it lying around in case I go REALLY mad for some reason. or I just give them away to friends.

last time I had a panic attack was probably 3 months ago. they used to be drug related though, and I've basically dropped all drugs except light alcohol use and TINY puffs of weed (I get unimaginable anxiety and paranoia if I get proper high). I'll probably end up quitting those too, because they seem boring.

2 posts up was responding to you, my bad

SSRIs work great for OCD and panic disorder. I avoided them for long too but they helped me immensely.

antidepressants don't fix anything. They just stimulate the parts of your brain that make you feel happy. And they can be addictive.

they've helped with my general anxiety so far, but ocd is still somewhat the same. apparently it starts being more effective for ocd at higher doses, so i'm looking forward to that.

what do you take and what dose user?

I started cybmalta at 30mg just a few days ago, it no side effects for me unlike the other one I was on. Hate how I have to wait like a month to see if it works.

You obviously have no clue what an antidepressant does.

all good, b

they don't make you happy at all, if anything the make you less happy since they suppress emotions (both good and bad)

that's not at all what they're "supposed" to do, but it does end up happening for some people.

I take 75 mg of Sertraline(Zoloft) for panic disorder I had for about a year. Started feeling better after about a month which made me be functional and slowly back to -almost- normal.

I was developing agoraphobia and my life was turning to shit. I still have some lingering anxiety now and then and trying to work on that with better sleep and possibly starting to exercise soon.

that's really good to hear user, I hope I can say the same as you in the future.

Best of luck user. I hope you feel better soon.

"Thinking of this society as the default state of existence is the reason why you think that
humans would be ""not well"" for ""no reason whatsoever"". Civilization has not been
present for 99% of the existence of hominids, and the only way that it's ever sustained
is by indoctrinating each new child for years on end. The ""wellness"" that you speak of
is solely defined by a child's submission to this process and their subsequent capacity to
propagate civilization themselves. When civilization exists in a form where all forms of
alienation (among many other things) are rampant, as can be seen in the most recent
incarnation within the last fifty years, new children will end up
""not well"" in all sorts of ways. You don't even have to touch a topic as cryptic as mass
murder to see an indication of this: you can look at a single symptom as egregious as the
proliferation of antidepressants. And look in your own life. You've said that you're afflicted
by unrelenting anxiety and that you're afraid to leave your house. Do you really think
that the way you feel is not symptomatic of anything other than your own inexplicable
defectiveness?"

"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. It is well known that the rate of clinical depression had been greatly increasing in recent decades. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable."

I agree with some of those points. I don't know if maybe somehow I'd feel normal if I were born and lived in a different context; there's no way to know.

This is the only reality I can really live in and I'm not really doing much living. Although I have many gripes with modern life, I've lived with the comforts of civilization for my whole life and I wouldn't want to give up my creature comforts -- especially the internet/technology -- unless I had to. I have to at least try to be comfortable in the circumstances I've found myself in, and I haven't for years. Time will tell whether my decisions are good ones, but some of what you wrote is poignant.