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.
Congratulations to you regarding this accomplishment. Wishing you the best as you sound to be in the home stretch!
I have been fortunate enough to not need/be introduced to these sorts of medications... I always worry that however they might intend to help, it is unbalanced with how it might rob your brain's natural ability to do these sort of chemical-related tasks. But I hardly know much about them to say with any certainty, so I appreciate your sharing here regarding your experiences with them.
I needed them to begin with for sure, but they’re a bandaid solution, not a permanent fix. Yet they were given to me, and I’d guess many others, without any sort of plan to ever actually get off them or solve the underlying issues. All of that, I’ve had to figure out myself.
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.
Congratulations to you regarding this accomplishment. Wishing you the best as you sound to be in the home stretch!
I have been fortunate enough to not need/be introduced to these sorts of medications... I always worry that however they might intend to help, it is unbalanced with how it might rob your brain's natural ability to do these sort of chemical-related tasks. But I hardly know much about them to say with any certainty, so I appreciate your sharing here regarding your experiences with them.
Thanks.
I needed them to begin with for sure, but they’re a bandaid solution, not a permanent fix. Yet they were given to me, and I’d guess many others, without any sort of plan to ever actually get off them or solve the underlying issues. All of that, I’ve had to figure out myself.