I know this isn’t the place for this, but do any of you have experience with antidepressants?

[Anonymous No.14763779]

i was prescribed prozac but i’m kind of worried about fucking up my brain and not being able to enjoy anything (or orgasm) anymore.
what is /fa/‘s experience with antidepressants?
>t. 19 y/o male
>inb4 “kill yourself”

[Anonymous No.14763786]

>>14763779
>>>/r9k/

[Anonymous No.14763799]

>>14763786
not interested in taking advice from robots, was hoping for some non autistic answers.

[Anonymous No.14763810]

>>14763779
>taking big pharma meds
Lmao

[Anonymous No.14763831]

>>14763779
taking pills for your mental health inst effay
own your depression like a real man

[Anonymous No.14763833]

>>14763799
Then coming to 4chan was certainly the right choice.

[None !IGORsW/P/E No.14763834]

Most people are not happy, welcome to the adulthood.

What's a depression? Do you exercise? Try exercising. Other than that, being jaded?

[None !IGORsW/P/E No.14763837]

I am "depressed" and so is everyone else.
I'm not taking any meds though.

[Anonymous No.14763845]

>>14763834
yeah, i used to lift 6 days a week. however, i haven’t been able to easily sleep or eat or exercise lately, and have become increasingly suicidal.
to be honest, i couldn’t ask for more out of my life, things have been going great and i’m not facing any real obstacles, which is why i feel like i have some kind of serious chemical imbalance and i’m not just le edgy kid being sad. i haven’t really been able to open up to anyone about it because i’m ashamed.
i know that both my dad and sister took prozac for many years, my mom too, though she stopped. i think i just have some kind of genetic predisposition for mental illness.

[Anonymous No.14763854]

>>14763845
everyone is mentally ill lol
dude I used to be suicidal when I was low test

[Anonymous No.14763885]

Low testosterone levels may be associated with suicidal behavior in older men while high testosterone levels may be related to suicidal behavior in adolescents and young adults: a hypothesis.

[None !IGORsW/P/E No.14763888]

get yourself a cheerleader bro
I'm craving one but I'm a bit of schizoid
but yeah, a cheerleader would fix the depression, at least temporarily

[None !IGORsW/P/E No.14763899]

>>14763888
I would get tired of her after a couple days lol internet was a mistake

[Anonymous No.14763917]

Whatever side-effect you get will either pass or be reversed when you get off the drug. I'd personally look into other aspects of my life and see what I can improve rather than jumping on anti-depressants.
Tbh, medication should always be the last thing you try.

[Anonymous No.14763951]

>>14763779
I don't know about prozac, but I've been on venlafaxine and mirtazapine for a time. The first days are the worst til your body gets used to the chemicals

Ultimately you should follow your psychiatrist advice. Maybe give it a try and in case that in a few weeks you feel like it isn't helping just let him know...

Take care. Things get better

[None !IGORsW/P/E No.14763955]

things get worse desu
hope is nice, but it's useless

[Anonymous No.14764016]

>>14763779
I have been depressed for the past 3 years and have been fighting through it without anyone else or anything else to help me

[Anonymous No.14764029]

>>14764016
So what? You want an equal-attention cake for that?

[Anonymous No.14764442]

>>14764029
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.14764519]

>>14763799

>>>/sci/

[Anonymous No.14764546]

>>14763779
Your not depressed doofus big pharma just wants you to believe you are, workout more, get off the internet, read books, you’ll be fine trust me.

[Anonymous No.14764573]

>>14763845
Prozac (fluoxetine) is definitely helpful. I always found it a bit stimulating which may not be great for your insomnia. Luvox (fluvoxamine) is very similar but better for sleep. Your family history however suggests that Prozac could help you and you should try it

[Anonymous No.14764919]

>>14763779
first off anti-depressants are effay as fuck. Literally the ultimate low-key flex of attraction because of the subconscious message it sends.

>taking a pill that signifies mental issues leading a thicc one to become attracted to your issues and wanting to fix you


Although to get some real responses I've been on lexapro for the past 8 months and my mental health and been on the incline as has definitely shown improvement in my baseline for happiness. Take the pill anon it might help.

[Anonymous No.14764937]

>>14764919
>anti-depressants are effay as fuck
no they aren't. every mom is on anti-deps

[Anonymous No.14764939]

...and moms are not fa

[Anonymous No.14764954]

>>14763779
I took zoloft for a while. Eventually it stopped working and I clued into the fact that my depression is a result of the world around me more than it is an internal chemical imbalance. Stopped taking it months ago and I'm seeing my doctor later this month to see about getting reassessed or just getting on a different antidepressant. Nothing stops the world from being a fucking nightmare but at least I can pay less attention to it or stop caring about fixing it.

[Anonymous No.14764965]

Maybe a psychoanalyst or psycho the rapist would be more helpful than anti-depression meds.

[Anonymous No.14764995]

my anti depressants are making me fat, and most of my designer pants don't fit anymore.
anyone else here share this feel?

[Anonymous No.14765001]

>>14764919
>taking a pill that signifies mental issues leading a thicc one to become attracted to your issues and wanting to fix you

Imagine actually believing this.

[Anonymous No.14765062]

>>14764995
They don’t make you fat by themselves they increase your appetite, if you’re aware of what’s happening you can control it.

[Anonymous No.14765082]

>>14763779
i used to take specialist prescribed antidepressants to deal with my migraines and shit would make me unemotional as fugg, became somewhat of an unfeeling psycho masquerading as a normie
accidentally went cold turkey once after building up my dosage as the doc told me to and ran out of pills one week
shit got me fucked up hard, first and second day cold turkey was fine but third and fourth day had me obsessively washing my hands, feet, and face after every few minutes and crying and all kinds of horrible shit

[Anonymous No.14765740]

>>14763955
weakness. don't wallow in defeatism

[Anonymous No.14765748]

>>14763779
You should know any advice you recieve here is just general since we don't know your situation. That said, try it? It really varries from person to person. But know they absolutely aren't a cure, and true liberation comes from the soul. They will only help you with that reality in perspective.

[Anonymous No.14765853]

>>14763779
for me (on celexa 3 years):
much less anxiety, minimal suicidal thoughts, able to make productive strides without therapy on diagnosing how and why i react to certain things. In terms of physical effects, i've had little to none. I don't have those moments of like manic creativity that i had when i was depressed but worth it imo, i was miserable most of the time beforehand. I have some difficulty orgasming sometimes and am generally less horny, but when im actually having sex it's usually not an issue unless i've jerked off the past day or so beforehand. I only jerk off once a week to combat this. (ur libido being lowered makes this very manageable). In total, if ur rly on the edge of ur sanity, I highly recommend giving it a year and seeing how u feel afterwards. Ur 19, ur young. Give it a shot and if u don't like it then stop

** do not just take it for a month and expect great changes**

[Anonymous No.14765854]

>>14764016
i used to do this / romanticize it (and my heavy drug use) and then i grew up

[Anonymous No.14766468]

>>14763845
I've known someone who was on antidepressants for a while. He was really likeable then. No idea what medication he was on.

[Anonymous No.14767049]

>>14763779
Hey man, I used to take fluoxetine myself. It definitely did help me in a tangible way, but I discontinued it because I had the difficulty cumming side-effect. Probably not what you want to hear, but just my personal experience.

After stopping taking it everything returned to normal though and as far as I can tell my sexual functioning is the same as previously.

I would give it a shot and just be upfront with your psychiatrist about your worries and anything you experience.

Best of luck bud

[HelterSkelter !/9ifQN9f.Q No.14767124]

Pros
>Less anxiety
>Didn't want to kill myself
>No psychosis

Cons
>The worst writers block I've ever had in my life, I couldn't write a song if I tried
>Everything was just "whatever", I just won the lottery, cool, my best friend just died, cool
>When I finally did write a song it was "clever" and "virtuosic" but shitty and contrived. It made my self expression pretentious.

Going on them was one of the best decisions in my life, stopping them was an even better one.

[HelterSkelter !/9ifQN9f.Q No.14767130]

Also reading people here talking about weight gain, just wanted to say I've had the opposite effect.

>Lexapro
>Seraquil
>Sodium Valproate
>Tremadol

After a while the medication combined my anxiety and hunger into one indiscernible chimeric sensation. So hunger was easy to ignore/push down as mild anxiety, and anxiety would make me peruse restaurants until I realised I wasn't hungry at all.

[Anonymous No.14767133]

I just feel like a fake, worthless, low IQ piece of shit

[Anonymous No.14767134]

maybe more evil than fake

[Anonymous No.14767136]

I blame the society