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That’s withdrawal. Now you’ll always be on it. Kaching!
This fear has kept me depressed and anxious my whole entire life. 😀 But I'm pretty much at the end of my rope now, so hopefully I can force myself to see a doctor and get some of these addictive pills.
You do you. I just kicked an 8yr addiction and feel better than ever, because I worked on myself and got my brain to make the happy chems. Being addicted is the worst nightmare I’ve ever been through. It starts with “omg this actually works, I can live again!” And ends with EVERYTHING on pause. I was not a human anymore, just a robot/slave to the drug and society. A perfect little worker. Happy to be free and be a real biological creature again. If I feel bad now, there’s a reason and I go change it, it was a whole lot of work to internalize that realisation.
But hey, everyone’s different, and using drugs might help you! It just didn’t for me. More power to you.
Man I wanted to say this after your first comment, but I'm confident to say it now: FUCK YOU
More power to you. Just a warning :)
Most studies show that SSRIs do work best in conjunction with therapy, like CBT, so you're not entirely wrong. But the comment "you do you" seems to dismiss that some people have very real biological differences that might make them a long term solution, even with effective lifestyle changes. So I'll edit based on my experience and understanding.
Yeah, thanks. I was too lazy and didn’t want to spend too much time. So thanks!
I was on Effexor max dose. And yea I feel the robot thing. But they eventually found out what was wrong with me and I've been depression free for a year which has been different...
Yeah I guess for me it was just a BAD idea to go on drugs. Might be different for other people. Just sharing my experience.
We all crave normalcy or something like that, I tried multiple pills in order to feel normal. Zoloft > Wellbutrin > Effexor. I stopped Effexor cold turkey which is apparently very dangerous but had zero effect on me. But I stopped because I had zero feelings, I just existed, it honestly scared me (in my mind because I didn't feel shit).
5 years later they realized I was XXY, and my body doesn't produce testosterone. Turns out hormones are important. Once I started Testosterone, the constant downward pressure I had endured for decades disappeared overnight. Now I have phantom depression, depression is my normal so I have a hard time dealing with the fact that I'm not depressed. But my body will try to make it feel like I'm depressed. It is weird and I don't have the words to describe it, I thought being depression free would mean happy but instead it's this weirdness...
That's not how neurology or mental illness work, but you do you I guess..
Just my personal experience. Everyone’s different. But for me, drugs were a bad idea, and I’m kinda mad that it was so easy to get on them.