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Date of upload: Jan 30, 2018 ^^
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To anyone who ever sees this. When I started anti depressants 7 years ago, it was an SSRI. I was one of the people who noticed a change within an hour. I went from an immense TERRIBLE depression, to finally having clearer thoughts that werenāt about death and hopelessness. Please donāt discount medication. It is often the right catalyst you need.
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Sometimes it doesn't take that long to feel the effects. I went from really low, dissociative, irritable to neutral, present, and not irritable within about two hours. Its day four for me and I genuinely can not believe the difference. I can't believe I didn't start earlier. And a reminder: taking antidepressants for depression etc is just like taking Panadol for pain or wearing a cast for a broken bone. It's normal.
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One of the few times where going down to the comments section was actually a good idea. I'm finally looking into antidepressants for long term mild depression after 5+ years, and the ending statement about "SSRIs might only work well for people with extreme cases" had me really worried, since I've never experienced total anhedonia or su1c1dal thoughts due to depression.
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I just wanted to give a word of encouragement to anyone thinking of starting this journey. It helped me massively and allowed to live a normal life, even have the strength to actually use other tools such as therapy that I would otherwise have no energy to do. Please donāt turn it down just because itās a medication as it can turn your life around very positively
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Prozac ( fluoxitine) has helped significantly for my depression/ anxiety. But be aware that after some time you may "plateau" on it. A point where it becomes ineffective. Talk to your shrink right away if that happens. A PSYCHIATRIST NOT a psychologist. A change in dosage or type of meds may be required. Also sunlight, natural light in the house helps a lot. Diet, eggs, salmon, B complex vitamins, green tea, red ginsing, omega 3,6,and 9 oil capsules also help. (Nature Made at Costco.) It's extremely difficult for people who've never experienced depression/ anxiety to understand what you're experiencing. And a lot of them think they do.
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I started off with 10 mg of Prozac and maybe it was a placebo effect but that first week I noticed immediately an increase in being present at work with little anxiety. Before Prozac, I had a lot of stuff going on in my life that it affected my memory especially at work where Iād end up getting in trouble for not following instructions.
After i started taking it, I felt more prideful in my work, I wasnāt in my head to the point where I finally started to relax, I became funnier because I was in the moment and didnāt care about my responses, I became more optimistic with my coworkers and even started calling out shots and being more involved. Tbh I honestly tripped out on how debilitating my anxiety was until I started with Prozac and it hasnāt been a full month yet of being on it
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Iāve been taking Zoloft for about 5 years and I would not still be here without it. I had depression, and sever social anxiety, I could barely leave my house, Iām not 100% cured or anything it takes a lot more work then just going on medication to heal but without medication I wasnāt able to even begin getting better
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I never realized I needed SSRIs until I finally said "f*** it" and took it. And for those who are afraid of the "why didn't I take this sooner" thoughts, (like I was), they don't really have any effect at all. In fact any negative thoughts you just stop believing because you see them for what they are, useless thoughts. You made them yourself, but you can easily destroy them. And this also goes for positive thoughts as well. And suddenly you really end up realizing YOU. ARE. IN. CONTROL. You can choose what you want to believe or not. That's my experience so far when I started taking SSRIs.
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Iāve always been someone whoās been āantiā antidepressants. mostly stubborn about it. not wanting to ārely on medicineā to feel okay.
but after trying everything to help with my mood.. going to therapy, changing my diet, getting outside, getting exercise, trying getting good sleep.. nothing was shaking my spiraling, negative, thought loops. i mean, all if those things have definitely been great for my health overall. But the anxiety and shit mood was still there. My Dr suggested I try Zoloft, and at that point i was willing to give anything else a shot. and so far itās been SO helpful with managing my emotions.. and those spiraling thoughts.. even if it may be placebo.. atleast itās HELPING. along with therapy, too
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@Neuroscientificallychallenged
5 years ago
**UPDATE** For a full explanation of the last couple sentences of the video, please read the explanatory article linked here: neuroscientificallychallenged.com/on-the-effectiveā¦ Please note that with the last 2 sentences of this video Iām not making a claim that SSRIs donāt work. Instead, Iām pointing out that some research has questioned their effectiveness, especially in certain individuals (like those who suffer from milder cases of depression). Itās not a statement of opinion that this type of evidence exists---itās a fact that multiple studies have failed to find a large clinical benefit to antidepressants over placebos, at least in some groups (Iāll include links to several studies below). I was trying to provide a more complete picture by mentioning this research. I was not, however, trying to make any statements one way or another about the effectiveness of antidepressants. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that they do work better than placebos (e.g., pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29477251/), but the area is somewhat controversial. Plenty of people, however, benefit significantly from the drugs, and I am not trying to deter anyone from taking them or trying to convince you they will not work. More research will probably provide us with a better picture of who stands to benefit the most from taking an antidepressant. Again, please read this article if you want the full story: neuroscientificallychallenged.com/on-the-effectiveā¦ Some studies that question the effectiveness of antidepressants are linked below. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712503/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2253608/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299662/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15110490 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14974002
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