/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11318575
You could very slowly decrease your dose until you're off them.

>>11318575
what did you start taking them for in the first place? how have they affected you/that? you should probably do as first post says, then try ketamine or magic shrooms

>>11318585
your psychiatrist will get mad at you if do that. the reasons why are trivial and left as an exercise to the reader

>>11318595
they will get mad if you go off them abruptly. but gradually decreasing the dose is pretty safe.

>>11318595
anxiety and agoraphobia. came off them gradually but relapsed badly. currently all I feel is tired, sensitive to light and have derealization which I fucking hate

>>11318746
yeah that sucks. take the advice of an unqualified anonymous stranger with no interest in your well-being and no first hand experience, mate: try ketamine

>>11318575
Try diet and exercise, proper sleep patterns, spend more time exposed to red light, cold exposure.

if i dont take sertraline even one day i feel really weird sensation in my bad, my head does not exactly hurts, but its like "pulsating" i dont know how to describe, you just feel something "inside" your skin on head temple, and if you touch this place you stop feeling it for a moment if that makes sense. This feeling can be pretty strong, for example you cant sleep because of that

SSRI fucks with you big time. Takes a long time for the body to recover, if at all.

>>11318823
drugs that play with serotonin and norepinephrine usually cause withdrawal effects, even if they don't it's always best to do >>11318585 / >>11318602

>>11318575
>SSRI taker here for over 20 years. If you get off quick, get ready for the zaps. Also, increased anxiety.

Gee I don't know, maybe read side effects or better yet learn how the pharmacologically actually works instead of this defeatist nonsense

>>11319832
>learn how the pharmacologically actually works instead of this defeatist nonsense
>do what professional doctors and researchs haven't done for 40 years

>>11319841
It's not not well understood just because your stupid ass doesn't understand it

>>11318939
Basically. You have to reduce the dose very slowly. Cross-tapering onto another SSRI such as Prozac that has very long half-life might also be beneficial before trying to reduce the dose down to nothing (shorter half-life SSRIs such as Effexor seem to have the worst brain zaps when reducing dosage).

>>11319841
The effect size of SSRI over placebo is statistically significant but still quite small. Antidepressants in general are not all that effective on average, but they are prescribed since they're better than not taking anything for most patients.

>>11319922
>Antidepressants in general are not all that effective on average, but they are prescribed since they're better than not paying for anything for most customers

Fixed

>>11319989
Nearly all antidepressants have gone generic and price and profit margin has plummeted. There is little financial incentive in trying to get more patients on antidepressants. Direct-to-consumer prescription pill ads in the U.S. are now geared towards convincing middle-aged women they have some sort of autoimmune disorder, and the pills for those are still mostly under patent protection and cost thousands of dollars if not tens of thousands per year.

>>11318920
All drugs has withdrawal effects. That's how LTP and desensitisation work.

>>11319998
That doesn't mean that policies will change, if I was a big pharma spook then I wouldn't just cut off insidious policies that stopped being useful, because that is incredibly suspicious and the whole thing, as most conspiracies, operates on keeping as many people in the dark and autonomously operating as possible.