nudityandnerdery: dietcokereba: queenspritzee: puke-ahontas: edgebug: sincerely, a person who has be
nudityandnerdery:dietcokereba:queenspritzee:puke-ahontas:edgebug:sincerely, a person who has been on prozac for 9 yearsthis is in response to some shitty stuff i’ve seen on my dash recently. it’s super simplified, so if you’d like to know some more indepth stuff on how exactly it works, google it—OR BETTER YET actually talk to a mental health doctor psychiatrist person wowProzac has literally stopped me killing myself. I would be dead if it weren’t for antidepressants. If you spread misinformation I’ll come to your house and smack u into orbit.I’ll join you and steamroll peopleAs someone who takes the highest dosage of zoloft (setraline) possible for my body in order to function as a “normal” human being, allow me to assure you that if I ever hear you talking shit about needing to take meds, I will pull your head out of your arse and smack it into the nearest wall.This is good, the one thing I’ll point out is that sometimes antidepressants will make you numb- it’s happened to me and my sister- but that’s a sign you’re on the wrong one. So if it happens, go back to your doctor and say you want to try a new one.All of this. If it makes you ‘numb’, it’s the wrong drug. I have been on SSRIs for almost 20 years now, and I feel completely confident in saying that without them I would be dead. There are other classes of antidepressants as well that are commonly used, often in conjunction with an SSRI, that inhibit the reuptake of other neurotransmitters, usually dopamine and norepinephrine. Wellbutrin is a good example–it works on both of those. Effexor works on serotonin and norepinephrine. (For me, personally, the combination of an SSRI and Wellbutrin appears to be the magic bullet for making me a healthy person.)This is part of why finding the right med can be such a crapshoot: we know what the meds do, but as of right now, we don’t have a test to determine what each individual needs. Added to that, there’s the phenomenon of “SSRI poop-out”, where a particular SSRI may stop working after a period of time.All of this can lead people to think that the meds don’t work–they DO. The problem is, finding the right one, and keeping the right one, often requires patience at a time when patience is thin on the ground. -- source link
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