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.
I don’t doubt it. Something I read only recently as well is that they can actually mess with your vision, which is something I’ve noticed. It seems to be hit and miss whether it’s permanent or not, and it might just be coincidence, but it’s that sort of thing they leave in the small print.
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.
Long term SSRI use can physically alter your brain structure, I looked into it. There are some seriously fubared side effects that can happen.
we seem to be kind of turning into reddit here, where randos will demand proof, so here is one article showing it. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-common-antidepressant-sertraline-brain.html
and https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2761879
"Conclusions and Relevance In this secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial, antipsychotic medication was shown to change brain structure."
I don’t doubt it. Something I read only recently as well is that they can actually mess with your vision, which is something I’ve noticed. It seems to be hit and miss whether it’s permanent or not, and it might just be coincidence, but it’s that sort of thing they leave in the small print.