Xorkoth said:
Before you go on an SSRI, please try to discover whether your doctor is really trying to do what's best for you, or if he's trying to deal you some pharmaceutical company's poison. It's true that SSRIs seem to help some people, but personally I would never go on one of them. They fuck with your serotonin system and are designed to cause permanent changes over time. They're so new, and we just don't know any long-term effects yet. Not to mention they change your personality.
SSRIs creep me out... I'm not sure if it's worse that they're being pushed for the profit of drug companies and doctors, or because they hand them out so readily. Improving your outlook on life is possible without behavior-altering drugs.
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Excuse me, but don't you take so called research chemicals? Long term effects of them are even less known then SSRI effects. My entire family has, at one point, been diagnosed ith a mental illness, for which SSRI's have been prescribed. In fact i take Zoloft.
They fuck with your seratonin system- what does a seratonergic psychedelic do?
To me, if shamans were using a plant to selectively inhibit the re-uptaking of seratonin, and the government illegalised thta, a culture would spring up around its reverent use. The cynisicism with which people regard legality and perceived government sanctioning of some drugs and not others is misplaced- that doesn't mean that everything legal is somehow corrupt, and that illegal drugs are somehow safer. I find it offensive that so many drug users on Bluelight seem to condemn SSRI use, but exploit any other means of attaining happiness. It is such a contradiction...
I use SSRI's so I don't have to be hospitalised with severe aggravated panic and agrophobia, and they've helped. Psychedelics have helped incredibly too. I fing no effect diminishment, if one simply ups the dose.
BTW, if anys ever used dipenhydramine or indeed, a lot of antihistsmines, you've performed SSRI Action in you brain.
Sometimes the real enemy is not Big Brother and his minions, but the little paranoid folk who see boogeymen everywhere. Derpession/anxiety are real- my family has a chemical imbalance that must be regulated, otherwise I'm in a psychiatric hospital, or dead.
Thst said, SSRI's without therapy, either self performed psychedelic or monitored, is useless.