#ssris

[ninamodaffari]

friendly reminder for those on antidepressants that you have an increased risk of heat stroke this summer so please stay hydrated and wear a hat, invest in one of those cool pads and be careful during long walks outside!

[metrocentric]

Wandsworth Roundabout underpass (NW exit), SW18

SSRIs can't cure poverty

[hawkeyedflame]

so are we going to talk about how SSRIs, even taken for short periods of time, cause long term sexual dysfunction that can, and for many people does, persist for decades after they stop taking the medication? were we ever going to talk about that? were any of my doctors ever going to warn me that taking this medication could damage my sex life permanently? are we going to talk about this in the context of the frankly alarming number of young people who are put on these medications as teenagers? or the sudden sharp rise in people id'ing as asexual? no?

[emohorseboy]

Hey did you guys know that a lot of psych-meds (SSRIs, SNRIs, et al) can cause tooth decay? Because I didn’t until a dentist mentioned it to me; no psychiatrist or GP prescribing me those drugs over the years thought to mention it

(I’m not a dentist but I was told that because they cause dry mouth, that increases your risk of tooth problems, particularly if you’re taking them for a long time)

[she-is-27-i-checked]

Putting this here because I value the opinions of a bunch of depressed neurodiverse queers who care about me far more than any medical professional. This is heavy mental health stuff so don't feel obliged...

So as you may have gathered things have taken a turn for the worse recently with the old Brain Mould situation. I've been on this rodeo a LONG time so I know the signs. What I don't know this time is what to do about it.

Brief history is I was on sertraline for about 6 years when it started to get less effective and so asked the doctor to try something else. The stronger drugs were all initially effective at conquering the depression and anxiety but after a while all gave me the same debilitating side effects. It's what I believe is a result of dopamine imbalance which is caused directly by the effect of the ssri's and it materialises just like ADHD symptoms - inability to concentrate, lack of motivation, noise and touch sensitivity, irritability, and probably via the effect of all that going on behaviourally, leads to anxiety and depression. So I ended up back where I started but for different reasons. I tried maybe half a dozen different drugs and they all basically went the same way. With no more drugs left to try we agreed I'd just stop taking anything and see how I got on raw dogging life. I did not get on well. At the point I was going to lose my job and/or marriage, I went back on sertraline working up to a higher dose than before.

Then things were good! Actually GOOD for about a year. I was free of suicidal ideation entirely for the first time I could actually remember. Then in September this year it started creeping back in. Just the occasional "omg I'm so tired I wish I was dead". Which used to be just a constant screen saver in my brain and I hadn't had in 12 months. Which made me panic a bit. And things have been creeping worse for the couple of months since then. I haven't been doing much work, I'm being less and less patient with child and wife, and I'm not at all prepared for Christmas.

Right now it is the middle of the working day and I have done nothing except order groceries, shower and twat about on my phone. At 5am when Mrs got up for work I started scrolling Tumblr despite having 2 hours until the alarm. Thinking about Christmas with The Families makes me feel sick.

Soo... I'm either under medicated, over-medicated or just responding normally to the objectively stressful events and season. I do not trust a doctor to help me unless I go there already knowing what I want out of the visit.

Should I get help now? Realistically that could only be an increased dose of sertraline because the other options have all been ruled out already. Or should I leave it and see how I get on once the Worst Time Of Year passes?

[precambrianpark]

SSRIs/antipsychotics: we're here to put you at gentle ease! take us daily and we'll do as you please! 🌅🌻

the side effects:

[theapollosystem]

Our antidepressants have fucked with our system communication, it was bad before like we never really had that good communication but I literally can’t hear my alters, nobody can hear eachother in front anymore. it sucks ass we’re gonna change our meds soon. SSRIs can fuck with system communication, it has already fucked with ours and it’s gotten worse as we went up in dose. it kinda messed up with our healing, like communication is apart of healing.

[daydreamers-sys]

My lexapro feelings, in order:

Huh. I don’t feel anything.

My STOMACH

Sleep? That’s a real thing?

SLEEP. OH GOD I LOVE SLEEP. I WILL NOW SLEEP FOR 13 HOURS.

*wakes up laughing because a dream was funny*

I must. EAT. Everything I fucking see.

Chocolate. Meat. Chocolate. Meat. Bread. BREAD!!!!!

Oh holy fUCK that was a scary dream

If everyone doesn’t shut up RIGHT NOW I am GOING to start pulling numbers for who dies next

WHY is it so QUIET. I am so UNDER STIMULATED, someone DO SOMETHING. *10 seconds later* OKAY STOP

It’s bedtime :) *two hours later* oh-KAY, it’s bedtime!! :)

[weirdpersonifiedpills]

Happy fluoxetine day!!

Something I drew up last year for the anniversary but never posted here. 49 years ago today, compound LY-110140 was given the name fluoxetine. After that, it would be 12 more years before it was finally FDA approved in December of 1987 and subsequently sold on US shelves in January of 1988 (that long ass time span is a whole other can of incredibly interesting worms).

I chose film imagery for this piece as a reference to Prozac’s ‘blockbuster drug’ status, of which nearly everyone was taken off guard by it achieving. No one had high expectations for fluoxetine, even those who developed it in the first place. An antidepressant that acted specifically on the serotonin system could never survive in a world where the current antidepressants, like MAOIs and TCAs, acted on multiple systems, and yet Prozac became a national sensation.

What followed massive success was an outcry that only seemed to get louder as time went on, as the potential dangers of the drug were not being properly communicated or warned about. People were dying, committing suicide. Data was covered up, falsified, never released. The court cases lasted years as people fought pharmaceutical giants in search of retribution. I could talk forever about how interesting Prozac’s history is in particular, and how every other SSRI ties so closely into its story (which, if you want to read, I highly reccomend Let Them Eat Prozac by David Healy, my absolutely favorite book ever I read it over and over).

Next year will be the 50th anniversary of fluoxetine’s official name, and I could not be more excited about that

[thurisazsalail]

DULOXETINE / CYMBALTA SSRI RECALL

Duloxetine recall due to impurity of contents. (link)

The chemical involved is pretty safe at low levels. Almost everyone has very low levels from water, vegetables, cooked meats, etc. but this is above regulation limits. Higher doses over longer periods of time it can cause cancer. Check your bottles. Return them if they're in Lot #220128 and get the properly made ones.

7000+ Bottles Voluntarily Recalled Across the USA, Started 10/10/24

According to the FDA, the recalled lot was #220128, expiring December 2024.

[ninamodaffari]

ya'll getting off of antidepressants is scary as hell. like, i've been on lexapro since I was 22. that's nearly ten years. since weaning off of it (down to 5mg from 20mg a day), i've been more fatigued, losing interest in things like drawing and games, and just feeling more depressed in general. every bone in my body is like 'well shit, I should probably take it again' or 'oh my god, is this what my actual self is like'

and its kinda like, I can imagine for some, this weird cycle of 'okay, obviously i'm not ready to get off my meds, if this is how I feel normally', but it's not normal. its withdrawl from your medication. lexapro is a BITCH. withdrawls from it is even worse. how i feel right now in the midst of getting off of lexapro isn't how i'll be forever, it just feels like it might be because MY BRAIN WAS REWIRED

this isn't to poo poo on antidepressants btw. they saved my life. it's just getting off of them can be as scary as depression was sometimes. I just hope that things balance out, you know? my brain has to remember how to function without this med

[smashing-yng-man]

Literally, what's the use of any antidepressant that eases your anxiety but kills your sex drive? Like, what kind of double edge fucking sword is that?

[maybe-an-aspd-angel]

[amanitaknowsbest]

[sicksadtumble]

Can we ever have a conversation about consent in psychiatry and medical care in general? Can we talk about it?

Like you guys know what informed consent is, right? Why is that ignored when it comes to treating mental health problems?

Why are psychiatrists allowed to prescribe medications without telling the patient what they do or what the side effects are?

Why can't I talk to a therapist without my physical safety being threatened?

Why are doctors and psychiatrists allowed to coerce disabled and/or ill patients to take medication by refusing to treat/diagnose their problem until they take a psychiatric medication? Like I had doctors tell me, they won't run tests on me until I take an antidepressant.

I've directly asked psychiatrists to give me a full list of possible side effects, and they just told me "Oh it can cause nausea and maybe headaches" and then I go home, Google it, and find out I can't take it because it impairs cognitive function, causes brain damage, it's unsafe to take while driving, causes hair loss, raid heart rate, and possibly seizures.

Why doesn't anyone talk about this? And when we do bring it up, we're immediately shut down.