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> I am treated like an addict or ridiculous when I tell doctors I'd rather not "try SSRIs" If you’re willing to take Xanax but you’re not willing to try SSRIs,
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> I am treated like an addict or ridiculous when I tell doctors I'd rather not "try SSRIs"
If you’re willing to take Xanax but you’re not willing to try SSRIs, you have probably been severely misled about the relative risks of each.
Seriously, the internet misinformation machine is terrible for SSRIs.
One thing to keep in mind when reading online reports of drugs is that they tend to correlate quite heavily with the liking effect of a drug. Patients will rate drugs with rewarding effects significantly higher because they literally trigger the neurons in your brain that say “this is good and you want it now”.
- colechristensen 4y agoMy primary disinterest with SSRIs is first hand experience with people taking them and going on and off them. I don’t want to go into it or discourage anyone from taking them, but my experiences and reading papers reporting side effects results in a hard no for me.
- bowsamic 4y agoI don’t recommend SSRIs. I’m just one case but the side effects were bad: memory loss, total lack of emotion, unable to laugh or cry, etc. I ended up stopping them bc I stopped feeling in love with my wife. They were giving me a half life. I tried them again, this time with much worse memory loss, I don’t remember what it was like that time. I just remember sitting around people laughing with a dazed out smile, unable to join them. I felt fundamentally separated from the highs and lows of human life. First time was 50mg Zoloft, second time was 100mg Zoloft. I cannot recommend except in extreme cases