TACOE
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Highlight...do NOT take another pill...
Go to the vitamin section..and pick up some all natural 5-htp supplements...seriously...
Take 50mg whenever you are feeling down/anxious/depressed......100mg is the regular dose but 50 works also...make sure its not the time release stuff...
I spent 15 years of my life on ssri's....basicly what they do...is create seratonin (the feel good chemical) in your brain....with TONS of fucked up side effects....
Seriously..I took myself off Zoloft recently...weened myself down to 12.5mg from 100mg and even STILL I have been dealing with the most insane fucking withdrawals imaginable....
SSRI's should be illegal...and 10% of the adult U.S. population is hooked on them...
5-HTP does the EXACT same thing as SSRI's without all the side effects...it is a precursor to seratonin...it enters your bloodstream and your brain converts it directly to seratonin and within 20 minutes you feel "better" have a good "outlook"...then to find yourself smiling for no reason and just saying to yourself...man...life is good...
I'd recommend not taking more than 100mg in a day....honestly take half a pill during the day when you start to feel shitty...and then take another before bed.....
Make sure you don't take it with your other anti depressants though...because there is such thing as overdosing on seratonin....its very rare and you would have to really over do it...but its possible...
Seriously though...5-htp is the real. Natures anti anxiety/anti depressant.
couldn't have said it better. I have taken at least 4 different ssri's over the past 4 yrs (some did nothing) and im 21.
my view on em:
they don't work till you get into higher doses
@ higher doses you WILL feel side effects (sexual, carelessness + many more)
dull emotions (zombify as someone put it) - and not just bad ones
seems that the only positive impact for me was ridding me of serioius depression (suicidal feelings etc..) interestingly they have never returned since my first bout with prozac
made me a bit of an asshole... by having such dull emotions.. not caring
they stop working after some time (there's a term for this)
withdrawal is horrible - lightning bolts really fucking suck!
I feel great for like a month after i stop taking them.. maybe due to relief because i am off... then symptoms return
my most recent battle:
i stopped zoloft - after 2 years... weened over the course of 8 weeks, in 25mg increments, and i was fine till i got to 0 and still felt the lightning bolts and other withdrawal symptoms.
felt great for a while, now im back to the anxious depressed me. My anxiety was horrible for a while, and i couldn't handle stuff, especially with a new job at which i need to seem extremely happy for (it's tough.. but fake it till you make it i guess). So i went to Dr. Pillz while i am trying to find the right therapist. He suggested SNRI's (SSRI + Neurepinephrine) - I am not down.. eventually he very reluctantly gave me a tiny script for klonopin.. thanks dude...... I told him i don't want meds that are with me for the long run, and will eventually BE my personality... Went back a month later, had taken all 15 of the .5mg kpins her Rxed. He says "if you are taking them near every day you should be on an SNRI" I still tell him no.. that the kpins work... noticeably and that they allow me the comfort to actually work on myself... and he goes into addiction etc. I have no history of addiction, and I tell him the SSRI's are the most physically addicting drug i have taken. I become completely dependent on them or i feel like complete SHIT.. he "explains" the difference. In the end i tell him ill think about the SNRI over the next month.. and he reluctantly gives me 15 pills.
Enough rambling from me.. hang in there dude. and try not to get into the "med loop" or the "med trap" as i tend to call it. It is tough to navigate and tough to get out of...
all that being said. Stinky Green and Super conductor are totally on point. hear them.