I can tell you from bitter experience that they fucking suck. I’m currently trying to get off after a solid 8 years on them. You don’t realise how much they affect you until you start to drop the dosage - your brain works completely differently.
Withdrawals are awful, but I finally decided pushing through it was worth it. Give it another few months and hopefully I’ll be 100% free of this crap.
Not sure what you mean by that. Withdrawals themselves are just dizziness, anxiety, mood swings, and lack of sleep. It sucks, but I think the effects of the SSRIs themselves, especially at higher doses, are far more concerning.
Joe Rogan actually talked about how his friend described them once, which was like it’s impossible to have a negative emotion - he said he could watch his best friend get killed and it wouldn’t bother him in the slightest. That’s 100% accurate. I haven’t felt like that for a while - I’ve been on a medium sort of dose for a few years now - but just think of the implications of that. It absolutely doesn’t surprise me how many mass shooters are on these things, put it that way. Imagine you’re a depressed loser who’s angry at the world, and maybe has other mental health issues on top, and now suddenly you’re on a pill that makes you completely non-reactive to even the most horrendous of experiences.
I had to look up what an SSRI is, lol. I don't know what that says about me, but hopefully it is a good thing.
I can tell you from bitter experience that they fucking suck. I’m currently trying to get off after a solid 8 years on them. You don’t realise how much they affect you until you start to drop the dosage - your brain works completely differently.
Withdrawals are awful, but I finally decided pushing through it was worth it. Give it another few months and hopefully I’ll be 100% free of this crap.
Do you experience brain zaps?
Not sure what you mean by that. Withdrawals themselves are just dizziness, anxiety, mood swings, and lack of sleep. It sucks, but I think the effects of the SSRIs themselves, especially at higher doses, are far more concerning.
Joe Rogan actually talked about how his friend described them once, which was like it’s impossible to have a negative emotion - he said he could watch his best friend get killed and it wouldn’t bother him in the slightest. That’s 100% accurate. I haven’t felt like that for a while - I’ve been on a medium sort of dose for a few years now - but just think of the implications of that. It absolutely doesn’t surprise me how many mass shooters are on these things, put it that way. Imagine you’re a depressed loser who’s angry at the world, and maybe has other mental health issues on top, and now suddenly you’re on a pill that makes you completely non-reactive to even the most horrendous of experiences.