Anyone have experience with anti depressants/anxiety meds

[Bandern]

counterpoint: get a job

I can always “get a job” but you can never “unjerk off to cartoons” buddy!!!!

 

[Tbaz192]

This thread has gone off the rails once again.

Sorry OP hope you figure it out. I’ll refrain from highjacking more.

 

[bananafeet]

This thread has gone off the rails once again.

Sorry OP hope you figure it out. I’ll refrain from highjacking more.

Nah this is meso. Hijack this shit lol

 

[Terminal-Roids]

Was on mirtazapine and it just made me fat and hungry

 

[Liter O' Test]

It’s real. I read it some years ago. Women on BC are more likely to prefer men with more feminine features and when they come off the BC they lose attraction. Very interesting for sure.

Progesterone is very anti-estrogen. When estrogen is highest (ovulation), women have that stretchy clear discharge that’s a similar consistency to raw egg whites, perfect for delivering the sperm to the egg. When progesterone takes center stage, that cervical mucus thickens and gets sticky/creamy and libido will trend downwards. Progestin-based birth controls mock that phase of the cycle on a loop.

man so birth control even makes sex worse.
birth control is like the finasteride of women

 

[Flatriggerman]

It's not that deep bro.

SSRI meds increase seratonin. The side effects like delayed orgasm is not due to the mental effects but cross binding in peripheral tissues. This is similar to how non DHT steroids create ED or sexual dysfunction (Decca, tren). This is why you get nausea as seratonin increases in the stomach.

I don't think anyone seriously considers a pill that comes in a blister pack to be life changing. If your life is shit it's shit. Poverty is poverty, betrayal is betrayal. Divorce is divorce.

All these drugs do is increase seratonin so you can function and get your shit together. For example let's say you're going through a divorce, then you get mental health issues.

If you let it go untreated you lose your job. Then shit really spirals out of hand.

I can't believe I am defending these fuck arse drugs. But here we are lol

Edit: people pop cabergoline all the time. That increases dopamine in the brain. I don't understand the hang-up over SSRIs. I think it must be the side effects and the withdrawal.

I tried for 10 years doing all I could to stop anxiety without meds. Got older and couldn't maintain. Lexapro small dose changed the game. I lost out on a lot over those 10 years.

 

[bananafeet]

I tried for 10 years doing all I could to stop anxiety without meds. Got older and couldn't maintain. Lexapro small dose changed the game. I lost out on a lot over those 10 years.

Yeah man I can see that. Feel great today. I'm actually more unhinged on this shit. Anxiety held me back lol

 

[eryximachus]

It is important to be objective about psychiatric medications. They should be helping you get out of bed, socialize in your community, perform better at work, and so on. Feelings should have little to do with the treatment decision. Anxiety is really a difficult beast, and really not the reason most common antidepressants were even developed. Starting around 2010, serious propaganda against benzodidazpines changed the treatment picture. This is despite the fact they are the safest psychiatric medications, unless you down a bottle of pills with a fifth of hard liquor.

You should be direct with any psychiatrist about what you want to accomplish.

My personal opinions about first in class drugs these days are Trintillex, Lexapro, Wellbutrin and Vyvanse. For someone with no real anxiety, Prozac also has many advantages to this day including its very long half life and broad activating properties.

Asking for 0.5mg of clonazepam should not be an issue for most doctors, IF, he previous options failed.

Antipsychotics have a place, especially in the AAS world, as they work fast to knock aggression and tren like craziness down to nothing, But doctors use them like benzos despite the fact they will probably reduce your life expectancy by many years and significantly increase your risk of dementia because of strong anticholinergic effects (for most). You should always tell a doctor that you know, for example, Seroquel will probably give you diabetes, seriusly fuck up your blood lipids, and increase your risk of dementia by a lot while Valium does none of these things.

Then there is the dark horse that takes even more work. Lithium. It does so much positive for brain in ways we learn more about every year. American doctors are borderline lunatic about the risks, when they are really quite few with proper monitering.

 

[Liter O' Test]

Starting around 2010, serious propaganda against benzodidazpines changed the treatment picture. This is despite the fact they are the safest psychiatric medications,

this statement invalidates everything you said in the rest of your post

 

[DoubleDeez]

Friendly reminder to the people in this thread recommending drugs that OP is 18, and teenagers are the population most likely to become suicidal on SSRIs.

 

[hellogre2]

this statement invalidates everything you said in the rest of your post

Benzos are just as fucked up as heroin.

 

[Sera]

Yeah man I can see that. Feel great today. I'm actually more unhinged on this shit. Anxiety held me back lol

I had to switch off sertraline because it was making it difficult to sleep, also made me feel a little impulsive and prone to engaging in ‘addictive’ behaviours. It actually hits dopamine also I believe. Just something to keep an eye on.

 

[Sera]

Benzos will very easily destroy you. In my view they should never be used outside of a hospital.

 

[Bandern]

The benzo people I met in rehab were interesting cases. Usually well off, very normal, kind people. Never would’ve ended up occupying the same space as crackheads and drunkards such as myself if not for an evil medical professional.

 

[lilhawk]

Best thing I have ever tried for anxiety was psilocybin micro dosed at 150mg per day. Did that for 3 months a couple years ago and have never had anxiety again, nor have I needed to microdose again.

 

[bananafeet]

I had to switch off sertraline because it was making it difficult to sleep, also made me feel a little impulsive and prone to engaging in ‘addictive’ behaviours. It actually hits dopamine also I believe. Just something to keep an eye on.

Yeah man I can see that. 3 weeks in and the fatigue is basically gone but it's making me more blunt, impulsive and rude.

Oh well I feel great. No more rumination and anxiety.

 

[Flatriggerman]

Best thing I have ever tried for anxiety was psilocybin micro dosed at 150mg per day. Did that for 3 months a couple years ago and have never had anxiety again, nor have I needed to microdose again.

how did you go about getting that treatment?

 

[Nixonnow99]

Best thing I have ever tried for anxiety was psilocybin micro dosed at 150mg per day. Did that for 3 months a couple years ago and have never had anxiety again, nor have I needed to microdose again.

I’ve read about this before. Added bonus that it doesn’t show up on employment drug tests either.

 

[DoubleDeez]

Best thing I have ever tried for anxiety was psilocybin micro dosed at 150mg per day. Did that for 3 months a couple years ago and have never had anxiety again, nor have I needed to microdose again.

I used to keep an ounce of that shit in my freezer for PMS every month. I’d just eat one tiny button-sized cap and I could still function in public like a normal human. I was me but…amplified (my mood, all of my senses.) Everything was more enjoyable. The feeling of wellbeing lasted for weeks afterwards. Never a negative side effect to be found.

 

[Hdawg]

I can always “get a job” but you can never “unjerk off to cartoons” buddy!!!!

sounds like your projecting lol