My psychiatrist prescribed me Prozac

My psychiatrist prescribed me Prozac

what does pol think about ssris?

>paying jews to call you crazy

>inb4 Jewish braincontrol

They're your best shot with legitimate depression, but remember 80% of the work is you bettering yourself

>trusting the pharmaceutical jew

...

>falling for the pharma jew

You eat healthy things or just shit?

Do you usually practice physical activities?

If you do this things and continue on this shit, go ahead.

They only work if you drink heavily while you take them. I recommend about a fifth per day, or so.

the doc probably just prescribed them to you cause you're a whiny little bitch

My dog's on Prozac. Proscribed by my Jewish vet wife.

this

if you have to take pills to get through life, what will you do when you don't want them any longer and you've built a life around dependency on them?

This while operating heavy machinery and working out a lot

Srs though go to /fit.

chemical castration

I went on st johns wort for about a year though and I think it did me some good

don't forget to WEEN OFF lil nigga

Trust me OP, don't listen to a single retarded/negative thing that people say. They can work in the short term for some people, but unless you're better in a year or two, you should try another type of medication.

SSRIs are just the start, my doc said I have to start hobbies/working out/ going out so that my base in the future is the activities and not the ssris when I wane off the drugs

this

I know two people who are dead as a result. Two that use a small maintenance dose to get buy. One where it's basically part of the formula for pain mitigation as she's nearing 100.

Oh yeah and I know by proxy one who was great at first and then crashed out and now can't increase the dose to make it better or decrease the dose to go back.

I'm on prozac for anxiety, I can say it has helped a tiny bit, but mostly it's my family helping me. I'd say take it until you get your feet off the ground and then ditch that garbage.

Take a fuckload of 5-HTP or adderall with it too, and quadruple your prozac dose too. Really gets that serotonin flowing.

Remember Sup Forums has absolute trash opinons on anything not relating to politics, hence why you should ask somewhere relavent

Absolutely, positively, do NOT take these.

Literal blue pills designed to make you happy and accept white genocide. Ain't no nigger ever take any SSRI's.

>what does pol think about ssris?

It pains me to whiteknight on Sup Forums but here goes:

STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ANY OF THOSE MINDFUCK PILLS. I am as serious as a heart attack about this. STAY AWAY FROM THEM. Smoke some weed if you're anxious, get some exercise, eat some vegetables BUT DO NOT EVER TAKE EVEN ONE OF THOSE MINDFUCK PILLS.

Check out ssristories.com if you need a good scare, but just in general Prozac, Zoloft, all the rest are VERY BAD NEWS and something you do not want in your body at all, ever, period.

The idea is that they help you get out of a rut. If you're so depressed that you can't take care of yourself then it's a good way to backtrack the progression to where you weren't such a sack of shit.
Then with the power of being falsely comfortable, you need to push yourself to fix the broken things in your life.
You get off the meds when you feel like you have enough groundwork to keep improving without them.
This is what I did, been off pills for 5 months, my life's shit but it's a hell of a lot better than what it was, and at least now I can experience things naturally.

OP short term use ONLY!!!!!
Get off them ASAP or better yet don't take them at all.
Get outdoors
Exercise
Lift
Gardening
Fishing
Fucking anything outdoors

I took Prozac for awhile, it gave me terrible nausea in the morning to the point I threw up several times. It's not listed in the side effects I don't think, so be aware, might just be a weird thing about my body though

Switched to Lexapro, far better

i took them for a little while, the broke my dick.

Trazadone better, kpins even better

As others have said, it's not a cure all. Depression stems from many factors, some can be chemical, others from real life events. So if you have depression that's being triggered by outside forces you're going to have to work on them, or the pills aren't really going to do anything. If your dad is beating the shit out of you and it makes you sad, pills won't help.

i'm on prozac too bro for anxiety, i tried to quit cold turkey and went through hell after 3 days

you dont need meds! like what the fuck does that doctor know? they only went to school and did an intern ship and a fellowship, then you decided to go to out of all the other doctors in the area, and spent your money to get them to give you there advice, but fuck all that liberal education! your smarter then those communists that you happend to already spent money on. you dont need those meds. right. your to stupid for sarcasm. YES TAKE THE MEDS

Change "anything not related to politics" to "everything", otherwise this.

they solve nothing and potentially leave you with another set of problems. the best case result you can expect with them is to stop caring entirely. whatever problems you have, or likely just think you have, will still be there.

Ive never taken them, but my girl would abruptly stop taking them too give her super powers...

Haha -eh

Kill me

Hyperbole; it's not mind control, and they don't just completely change your attitude

Psychiatry is a Jewish bastard which stifles psychology and philosophy.

You're not supposed to be on them forever. You're supposed to take them for a bit and then ween yourself off them slowly while getting the proper counseling.

Problem is that a lot of psychs are dogshit.

Dumbass, I did the same though. Did you get crazy head throbbing and mini blackouts? (This was quitting Zoloft though)

>fucking anything outdoors
Alright Steve remember that's not strictly legal in most countries.

took them for a little over three years and stopped cold turkey a few weeks ago....


how bad did i fuck up my mind long term while on them?

Prozac huh? Got any firearms laying around?

Psychiatry is a barbaric fucking practice and always has been its just more subversive now. Psychiatric drugs are fucking poison they almost killed me. SSRIs at the very least will probably make your dick limp. Start working out and playing an instrument or drawing or something. fuck pills.

dont take that shit, its bad for you, literally heroin is less damaging taken over a one year period

your psychiatrist is a kike, stop giving him money

OP when the doctor goes you the prescription ask for the Zyklon B brand. It's the just like the big name brands but about 30% cheaper.

Also if you must take it OP, be prepared for some fucking awful side effects.

Be ready for some true brain zaps that your doctor says "can't happen, you're making it up". Then shoot your doctor and go to prison for 5 years and come to Sup Forums to tell the next person to be ready for brain zaps that their doctor says "can't happen, you're making them up" then they shoot their doctor and go to prison for 5 years and come to /pol to tell the next person to be ready for brain zaps that their doctor says "can't happen, you're making them up"

I have nothing to back this up, but my pet theory is that so many people are depressed not because of a biochemical imbalance but because their lives suck and their brains aren't evolved (or designed, dif you prefer) to deal with modern living, in most cases anyway - I wouldn't go so far as to rule out biochemical imbalance in literally every case.

Going by that, you should only take anti-depressants if you can't change your personal circumstances enough to be happy, and if you can you should do that instead and just be happy naturally.

In my experience weed is a mixed bag for treating anxiety - helpful in the short term (in moderation), but worse in the long term.

Not at all, but you may experience the symptoms that caused you to be prescribed it in the first place.

Don't worry you won't shoot up a school or anything. Might help, try it.

If you want to do meth, just get the real thing.

I heard this stuff makes your dick useless.

SSRIs are fucking poison. Can't wait to see you on the news after shooting up a nursery you weak minded fuck.

>waaaah life is hard I'm not happy
>waaaah I'm so beta I can't leave the house
>waaaah I want to feel good
>Don't worry about being a strong minded human being, take these pills faggot

My prozac is for anxiety not depression

Weed gave me my first schizophrenic experience.
>Thoughts becoming louder and louder
>Reassure myself that I'm just a bit too high
>Thoughts begin to be paranoid (was that a knock at the door?)
>Still tell myself that it's just thoughts and that I'll come down eventually
>Thoughts are as loud as a voice now, really paranoid thinking (what if my neighbors can smell and are going to call the police?)
>Gets harder to convince myself that these are just thoughts and not reality

Thankfully I came down from the bout of paranoia after around 30 minutes. But damn did I ever get some insight into what schizophrenics deal with.

>while on them
quitting cold turkey is what is gonna fuck you HARD

>tfw bipolar
>tfw I'd be pretty unstable without meds

no amount of lifting or proper diet will fix this, will it?

Eat healthy

Exercise physically

take Diatomaceous earth to kill the parasite in your body.

Bye bye depression.

I was on a somewhat low dose and I could fucj my girlfriend for hours without cumming. But if I focused and got real into and fucked her hard I could cum

wow that sound great sign me up

they really do teach you how to focus on the positive :D

I'm not depressed tho, it's anxiety

SSRIs will absolutely fuck your brain up, put that shit straight into the trash

I stopped taking my meds about a year ago.
Fucking things were making me even sicker.

I'm sure that a healthier lifestyle would help to a degree

Shut the fuck up you stupid cock holster

you're not wrong. it would definitely help with the depression.
It's just so hard to have the motivation to do those things

If you're not depressed then don't go on SSRI's. A healthy sleep routine, a steady diet and exercise are honestly the best combatants for anxiety. Don't take benzos or anything either. Start running a mile per day then start running 100m and 200m sprints. Running is basically the cure for anxiety.

Still work for that also ;-)

Seriously, learn about Diatomaceous earth.

its not for everyone but it has literally saved my life.

We have this thread everyday. Just end your life OP.

Story time?

Friendly reminder not to listen to the psychopaths trying to give you serotonin syndrome.

Story one was a friend who got on prozac and wasn't monitored. He was a bit off to begin with and if I'd known he had done that I probably would have monitored him myself. And then he blew his brains out in record time.

The other death case was another friend who was also a little iffy but who seemed broadly stable. I don't know if that one was a suicide given that he wound up on a whole cocktail to try to mitigate the side-effects. There again, I would have raised a red flag for his parents if I'd have known it had gotten to that point.

Maintenance #1 is another iffy fellow, but he's doing well. Wants to get off it altogether, but can't, just like he can't quite quit smoking.

Maintenance #2 is roughly the same, although a more normal guy. Don't really know why he's itchy, but he can't get off all the way either and says it helps him not smoke as much.

Proxy is more complex, but basically a depressed lesbo who got her life turned around for a while and then burned out on it and is stuck. Haven't herd what happened from there, but one would suspect the doc picked a new happy pill to try to keep the game going.

Damn, I knew the stats on their safety were skewed. And you said school, so I don't know why anyone was giving this to teenagers when it's already been well established that Prozac can increase risk of suicide in teens (probably in everyone).

I only know one person and while he hasn't killed himself yet, he became addicted to them and pays his shrink out of pocket for the drugs. Went from being a promising political journalist and charming young man to an unhinged and abusive (to his parents) addict with a record and an ever-evolving set of psychiatric issues.

No doubt there are cases where it helps, just like as bad as schizo drugs are they can often be better than nothing. But these things are clearly overused.

Just like pain meds.

I took an ssri for a few weeks.

got insanely mad and moody and suicidal urges.

stopped taking it and never went back to the doctor that prescribed me that shit again

I'm not telling you to stop taking something your doctor prescribed for you because I don't know your personal medical history and/or condition.

But I can tell you my own personal experience with SSRI's and some of the well known caveats to them.

If you're a teenager, SSRI's are dangerous because teenagers are more off balance biochemically because of all the hormonal changes their body is undergoing. They usually balance themselves in their mid 20's on their own or with appropriate lifestyle changes. Teenagers are more likely to attempt suicide though over little things, because their biochemistry is so fucked up. With severely depressed, suicidal people, sometimes the only thing preventing them from killing themselves is apathy/lack of energy caused by their depression. SSRI's, at least some of them particularly prozac and paxil in my experience, are somewhat stimulating, they can give someone the energy they need to go through suicide that they didn't have before. Paxil in particular, made my jaw chatter and grind like MDMA, dialated my pupils, and made me want to go out on walks/runs for no reason other than I had unexpected energy. Now the energy boost hits you before any mood stabilization (which can take over a month) so it's a dangerous time, that first month. Just be aware of that if you're seriously suicidal.

Now for me.. one of the biggest issues with taking SSRI's when I was a young unbalanced teen/young adult was that SSRI's had side effects that interfered with normal social life, so I kept stopping them, only to have my anxiety (I was treated for anxiety rather than depression) come back and we try something new.

#1. It can make it so you can't cum, no matter how long or how hard you fuck. If you have a gf, this is really frustrating. Paxil and Prozac both did this to me.

TBC..

Taken it for a few years after an emotional breakdown that had been building for a long time. They definitely DO have help with depression and anxiety if that's what you're asking however I've also definitely had side effects.

The main effects that I had/have are tiredness / brain fog though I managed to successfully complete my degree whilst taking them. The one thing I will say is try and sort your issues out as soon as possible, you really don't want to be lingering on this shit for years and years as it's incredible difficult to come off of.

incredibly*

Have fun shooting up someplace OP. SSRIs are a fucking joke. We're not even close to SSRIs being linked to mass shooters... even though many of them were on them.

what did people in the past do when they weren't having drugs pushed to them for every little problem? ditch that pussy shit. life isn't supposed to be fun, easy, or settled. it never has been. oh wah i have a chemical imbalance. so fucking what i probably do too. go to the gym.

And I've always had moderate to severe depressive symptoms all my life, though I've never gone to a shrink for it because I'm paranoid about that shit being on my record and I don't trust big pharma. But I do hit most symptoms on any depression checklist.

What happened instead was I tried taking the recommended dosage of St. John's Wort, and 5-HTP, months apart. These are similar enough to SSRIs that some sites say you can swap them.

Got angry (blinding rage), suddenly didn't need sleep, went literally looking for physical fights on the street, told all my friends to fuck off, paranoid as hell that everyone was out to get me, racing thoughts, fast and strong heartbeat. It took a few days to wear off.

Seems I'm a hidden bipolar case, which means I shouldn't be on anything serotogenic. A good psychiatrist should be able to ferret these things out, but I don't have any of the standard bipolar symptoms like manic cycles or erratic behavior. I probably would have flipped my shit, at least for a few days, if I ever got the antidepressants prescribed.

Probably doesn't apply to OP but a fun anecdote.

these.

OP if you havent been able to muster up the courage to kill yourself, 1 month of prozac should have you blowing your brains out no problem

theres a reason the military wont let anyone whos taken a ssri in the special forces or on nuke subs

I'm not depressed tho it's for anxiety

#2. It can make it so you cannot handle alcohol. Alcohol will unbalance you and put you through serious mood swings. I'd find myself upset and crying over virtually nothing uncontrollably while I was on SSRI's and gone to a party with drinking. If you have to use SSRI's, be prepared to sacrifice alcohol as a social thing.

Those are the 2 worst side effects but like I said the jaw chattering/teeth grinding was another.

IMO, they have their place in some people but seriously as other people have been suggesting, CBT and some lifestyle changes are a better more healthy route to go, only use SSRI's when you're doing those things already to augment it and get off them asap.

Getting a job, making friends, having a social life, hell, having a sex life, all of those are more conductive to balancing yourself out for the long term than the pills.

If you were told by a GP to take the pills I'd say don't take them at all. GP's should not be in any position to prescribe SSRI's or other psychiatric medications. But you said Psychiatrist so I'll trust that they are more mindful about the side effects and potential risks of SSRI's.

Most people don't know that.

In the UK if you've ever been prescribed an SSRI you can't join the military -in any capacity- ever. At least that's how it was back when I looked into the army a decade ago.

I should probably elaborate
>be suicidally depressed
>take prozac for 4 months
>brain fog I couldn't shake and memory was getting worse
>quit cold turkey like a dumb fuck
>brain fog is gone but still have worse memory
>still suicidal but slightly less than before
>tfw used to be great at math but hit a wall after taking them
Shit sucks, I was going to go for a STEM degree too.

All this damage control. Top kek.

Never taken SSRIs. I wondered about sampling the extra prozac from my brain-blown friend, but I just didn't want anything to do with it. I miss him terribly.

5-HTP however I did try a few times and found each round that it would make me feel like a caged animal within about a week and then cause me to engage in cage-banging behavior. So your anecdote might not be far from the truth.

>anxiety

Get some Kratom. SSRIs are toxic. Look into CBT and mindfulness meditation. Anything you take will ultimately be a crutch, you need to re train your way of thinking so that your brain stops shutting down and locking you in flight mode to cope with stressors. If you insist on taking the jew pill do it for no longer than 2-4 months and spend that time working out, eating right and forcing yourself to be in situations that set off your anxiety until you stop panicking. The pills will stop working and the longer you're on them thd worse the discontination effects will be.

This.

Shut up faggot

>take an opioid

not good advice.

CBT and lifestyle changes and meditation are good though.

but don't we have enough people self medicating on opioids and dying?

The only thing I'm not completely sure about, in terms of my knowledge on these topics, is whether this kind of reaction is indicative of an underlying disorder like bipolar (which I suppose we can just call fast-swinging serotonin levels), or if that's just something that can happen to anyone regardless. Supposedly drug-induced mania is a category of its own independent of anything else, but it's hard to tell for sure what applies.

Yes, the caged animal feeling is exactly it. I remember comparing myself to a predator in my mind. LARPy maybe but it was such a contrast from my norm. Not sure if I got the crazy dilated pupils but I felt like my vision actually got clearer for a little bit too. I remember being dizzy and shaking too.

This, don't take Tramadol or any opioids. So bad for your brain.

50 years ago doctors tried to cure overactive teens by by lobotomy. Phrenology was taught by academics 100 years ago. SARIs are the same. At best they are a placebo. Doctors will allow their patients to suffer for years because they bombard them with brain pills instead of finding the root cause

And I am sorry about your friend. So unnecessary.

I imagine little would happen to you if you took like a fourth of a pill, but I don't see why you'd want to. Especially given what people are posting here about losing their cognitive abilities.

I mean, if you have to self medicate on anything, smoke a little weed maybe but even that is not such a great idea if you're still a teen.

It won't kill you or get you seriously addicted, but, it's still not the best idea. Lifestyle changes are the best antidepressant.