4chan said these were goypills no better than placebo, but I genuinely feel better mentally. It's been about 10 weeks of 50mg per day. I used to fall into states of extreme agitation and would hit myself in the face until I'd get black eyes, and I'd fall into states of extreme despair and extreme anxiety, and get panic attacks. These have either completely gone or are just mildly present and manageable. You can say I'm being placebo'd but I've tried other psychiatric meds (eg venlafaxine, tranylcyclopramine) and they did nothing. Meds work.
>>84925079most people overstate or understate the effects of ssri, but for some they work out really well. good luck op, it also stops me from throwing tantrums.
ssris really do differ from person to person. from my own experience i can say that sertraline didn't work for me, while fluoxetine on the other hand changed my entire world. it's something that everyone has to try out and figure out for themselves, but i'm glad sertraline works for you! hope it stays that way and i hope you keep getting better ^_^
>>84925079I fucking hated Zoloft. Also sounds like a wizard name.
>>84925079>>84925116My gf took 50mg and had a bad reaction to it, after like 3h she started to have panics attack, brain zaps and it kept on for like 2 day of worst bad trip like expirience that ive seen.I had my share of bad ones and panic attacks when I was younger and did some drugs bit nothing like it.She felt like shit for 2-3months, again brain zaps, panic attacks, emotional rollercoster, then it started to get better and after 6 months shes almost good again.Sertaline is evil because some people have terrible reaction to it. I have another friend which suffered similar fate but after 3 doses, he also have to deal with aftermach for 3-4months. I dont say its bad for all people, but just reaserch it, you can easly find large number of support groups and fucked up people, because they got prescribed zoloft for smth like shallow depresion and people went bonkers from taking one or few pills.
>>84925131It actually made me completely delirious when I first started taking it. I'm not exaggerating either, I was awake for almost 4 days straight. I started to genuinely hallucinate. These were REAL hallucinations - I remember trying to go for a walk near my house and got very self conscious because in my delirium I was stumbling and being weird and up ahead I could CLEARLY see a woman on a seat smoking. And that was right by the path I was walking on, I almost turned around but kept going, semi stumbling heart pounding at out incoming encounter and as I get closer it's just an empty seat. This is when I really realize the seriousness of my condition like I need to see a doctor or something I need to SLEEP and then as I carried on the path this dog runs out underneath and like through my legs. It was so scary, and the thing didn't exist. The whole time also in my peripherals there's moving sort of figures and energies. I think what happened is I was so sleep deprived and fucked up from this new drug I was getting like those hallucinations you get if you get sleep paralysis. But I was walking. It was so scary.
>>84925241It's not like LSD hallucinations either where it's actual objects that shift and morph and sort of become fractal like, no I was just straight up delusionally seeing things that weren't there. In the end I ended up buying zopiclone pills and FINALLY sleeping and from there over about the next week the side effects went away and I started improving. Also I'm not a goy I'm generally anti-psychiatry and think big pharma studies are biased and cheated and based on parameters (eg Hamilton depression scale) which have serious issues (eg self report and general subjectivity), I could go on for ages, but what I do believe is that this drug I'm taking is a psychoactive substance. There is no underlying chemical "inbalance" or abberhant brain chemistry within myself. Rather, I have behavioral and mood problems which are improved by taking this psychoactive drug everyday. This drug is inducing structural changes in my brain as I become tolerant and if I decide to stop taking it I will experience withdrawal from this drug. I know all this and rationally make the decision to keep taking this drug because it's improving my life.
>>84925205Haha yeah that was basically my reaction see my above post
>>84925079Good for you anon. Hope you're doing okay.
>>84925241>>84925259One thing is that most peopl, even docs that prescribe this shit will tell you that first 3 weeks are worst, but setriline shock that happens to some people is like overdosing on it by taking like 600mg+ (as normal person).Afterwards I did reaserch that stuff and in usa you can even do some test beforehand to check if you are geneticly predisposed to sacha bad reaction, because its more prevalent than big pharma want you to belive.My gf found few other people through the online support groups that suffered the same fate at that time, all around the world. I recon it helped you but advertising it in your 1st post just leads to people with issues blindly asking for meds.All ssri are pretty potent and shouldnt be prescribed the way they do now, they should be meds for clinical depresion mostly and few other issues, meanwhile most people that take it would function without it if they only changed their lifestyle, meanwhile its to hard for people to xhange their lifestyle, their work, their surrundings and they look for a happy pill that would solve a problem for them. Of couese im not saying you belong to this group, still my stance is that meds like that are prescribed way to frequent and easy.
>>84925079Be less obvious shill
>>84925079>he doesn't understand what a placebo is
>>84925464Please elaborate I'm curious?
>>84925462I'm not a shill I'm basically anti-psychiatry I literally just posted this:>Also I'm not a goy I'm generally anti-psychiatry and think big pharma studies are biased and cheated and based on parameters (eg Hamilton depression scale) which have serious issues (eg self report and general subjectivity), I could go on for ages, but what I do believe is that this drug I'm taking is a psychoactive substance. There is no underlying chemical "inbalance" or abberhant brain chemistry within myself. Rather, I have behavioral and mood problems which are improved by taking this psychoactive drug everyday. This drug is inducing structural changes in my brain as I become tolerant and if I decide to stop taking it I will experience withdrawal from this drug. I know all this and rationally make the decision to keep taking this drug because it's improving my life.
>>84925458>Of couese im not saying you belong to this group, still my stance is that meds like that are prescribed way to frequent and easy.I agree. These are seriously powerful drugs that induce structural changes in your brain (hence the withdrawals and "brain zaps") and can induce extreme behavioral issues (such as, shooting up your school lol) but more like inducing mania, or whatever the fuck happened to me. On top of that there's a raft of side effects possible -> sexual problems, my legs sweat like crazy etc. And who REALLY knows the lifetime effects of these drugs? They're pretty new. I honestly think a lot of "mental illness" is just people's lives are bad. Shit job, poor, no friends, bad diet, etc. They say "seek help" which means a 15 minute doctor's appointment and really, his hands are tied too. He's got a waiting room of patients, gives you a questionare and then follows the prescribing guidelines. The meds come with a big pamphlet of side effects etc, which is supposed to now constitute informed consent. But it's bullshit really. You just do what the doctor says because you trust him/her. And then some people end up seriously harmed by these drugs. Who knows why? Why did this other meds do fuck all (venlafaxine gave me HORRIBLE withdrawals) but this one helps? There must be some causal basis in differing brain chemistry/cell structure or something. But nobody is testing for that, or even can.
>>84925079I just started Zoloft and I feel fine so far
>>84925079me when i take heroin
I started Zoloft at 50mg per day yesterday, i can't stop shitting water. its like im pissing out of my ass every 30 minutes. i had no idea the side effects would hit so quick. also feels like all the negatives of a shroom trip. like I underdosed and just yawn and clench my jaw.
