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Maybe the effect is different when prescribed for something other than depression, but I did not find my SSRI to suppress my emotions. It simply helps me curb r
by drakonka 2y ago
Maybe the effect is different when prescribed for something other than depression, but I did not find my SSRI to suppress my emotions. It simply helps me curb rumination and negative thought spirals. Helps to feel "lighter" and simultaneously more grounded. If anything, that allows me to feel _more_ positive emotion rather than suppressing it.
- hn_version_0023 2y agoCool, glad you had a positive experience. My experience was the opposite: emotionally numb to the point where awfully bad things happened in my presence and I barely shrugged. Being unable to feel joy or pain, being unable to cry when a loved on passed on; these were the hallmarks of my time on SSRIs. Never again will I subject myself to these drugs. It took me twice as long to get off them as I was on them. Two years of prescribed meds, 4 years to get off them. Six years of my life spent as a literal zombie person. We don’t know why they work or don’t. Our experiences are just anecdata.
- worik 2y ago> Our experiences are just anecdata. Just? Anecdotes matter