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Mental Health How long before you know an SSRI isn’t gonna work for you?

Sirena Oscura said:
Oh yeah! I have to admit getting off my meds had something to do with wanting MDMA and LSD too 😂
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Ha same, but I can't work up the courage to take any serious psychedelics these days, even though I really need it the risk isn't worth the reward at this current segment of timespace.
 
So ssris work for people? Last I checked they only marginally if that outperformed placebo in clinical trials. With something so palpable like depression you'd expect better..
 
Zephyn said:
So ssris work for people? Last I checked they only marginally if that outperformed placebo in clinical trials. With something so palpable like depression you'd expect better..
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It’s not for everyone, and some work better for some people than others. It takes a lot of trial and error to find one and sometimes you can’t find one- like me.

But yeah, they numbed me out hard so I had no feelings which meant no negative feelings so I could get on with my life.
 
Sirena Oscura said:
Yeah babe, at least 100-150mg.

side effects were too much for me honestly otherwise I’d still be on it. I can’t take not orgasming for the rest of my life 😂
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Well, (un)fortunately methadone destroyed my testosterone levels (currently at 22ng/dl...about the same as a young teenage girl). So I have absolutely no sex drive. For nearly 15 years. But those numbers will shoot back up now that I’m on suboxone. Until then, that side effect is no issue for me.

Strangely enough as an aside, my sex drive is massive when I’m dreaming...dunno what to make of that. 😂

Anyhow, you’ve convinced me Sireena. I’m gonna call up the psyche doc tomorrow and tell him to bump me to 100mg. I’ll keep you posted of my progress if anybody likes. Thank you all so much, as usual bluelight has the answer. 😎👍
 
Happy to help.

Yeah I go through phases of being intensely horny and then not horny at all but if I don’t get off for a long time I start to have sex dreams and sometimes orgasm in my sleep.
 
QTpi said:
It feels like 20% pure coke IMO. Or something lile that. Maybe less. I actually almost ODed off snorting 1500mg in an hour or two.

I imagine mixing with opioids could balance each other out. Problem is you have less and idea of how close you are to ODing on either one. Or both. Sort of like a speed ball? I honestly am not sure this is just an educated guess.

They didn't really hinder my sleep. I started on 100 or 150mg then went to 300mg eventually.

Do you have anxiety? I don't have much and that's i think part of the reason it worked. IMO SSRIs deal with anxiety better.
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I love your sig btw, that is SO true. 👍
 
Sirena Oscura said:
Happy to help.

Yeah I go through phases of being intensely horny and then not horny at all but if I don’t get off for a long time I start to have sex dreams and sometimes orgasm in my sleep.
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This is on SSRIs or off?
 
Sirena Oscura said:
Oh yeah! I have to admit getting off my meds had something to do with wanting MDMA and LSD too 😂
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You.can’t take lsd on SSRIs? I’ve got a very special sugar cube wrapped in foil waiting for the right time to...consume.
 
Shant said:
This is on SSRIs or off?
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Off. Same happened but more intensely on SSRIs though. Few months at the start I was a bit of a slut. Then months of not wanting to be around people let alone fuck them. TMI! Sorry.
 
Sirena Oscura said:
It’s not for everyone, and some work better for some people than others. It takes a lot of trial and error to find one and sometimes you can’t find one- like me.

But yeah, they numbed me out hard so I had no feelings which meant no negative feelings so I could get on with my life.
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Doesn’t sound like much to look forward to. But I guess I owe it to myself to give it a good shot. If I stop now I’ll always wonder if they could’ve worked for me had I stuck it out. I can’t even be sure I AM depressed. Maybe this is how you’re supposed to feel when you’ve let your world fall down all around you.
 
Shant said:
Doesn’t sound like much to look forward to. But I guess I owe it to myself to give it a good shot. If I stop now I’ll always wonder if they could’ve worked for me had I stuck it out. I can’t even be sure I AM depressed. Maybe this is how you’re supposed to feel when you’ve let your world fall down all around you.
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Don’t think too hard. Give treatment a go.
I wanna see you better :)
 
Sirena Oscura said:
Off. Same happened but more intensely on SSRIs though. Few months at the start I was a bit of a slut. Then months of not wanting to be around people let alone fuck them. TMI! Sorry.
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Not at all, I love your open-ness. I feel like I can let it all hang out on these forums. If not here, where? Seems a waste to worry about being polite. Life is better as an open book in my experience.
 
Sirena Oscura said:
Ohhhh nooo sorry honey no, you won’t get any effect from that cube alone.
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No kidding? It literally nullifies the effects? MDMA too? That blows my mind. There’s no telling what all this shit its doing to out brains.
 
Shant said:
No kidding? It literally nullifies the effects? MDMA too? That blows my mind. There’s no telling what all this shit its doing to out brains.
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It’s alright my love. Give it a shot. You can stop anytime and your brain will go back to “normal” so you’re not losing anything long term by trying- except the possibility of it working.
 
That’s one of my friend’s favorite sayings: “Your brain is plastic”. Guess we’ll see. 😎
 
Sirena Oscura said:
It’s alright my love. Give it a shot. You can stop anytime and your brain will go back to “normal” so you’re not losing anything long term by trying- except the possibility of it working.
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I'm not sure i entirely agree, I don't have much experience with ssris but I know they have rather nasty discontinuation syndrome and have personally experienced some extremely long lasting side effects stopping some other psychiatric medications. Given sufficent time on them, I think they could cause permenant alterations in neurochemistry
 
Zephyn said:
I'm not sure i entirely agree, I don't have much experience with ssris but I know they have rather nasty discontinuation syndrome and have personally experienced some extremely long lasting side effects stopping some other psychiatric medications. Given sufficent time on them, I think they could cause permenant alterations in neurochemistry
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I didn’t want to bring this up because I’m trying NOT to give OP reasons to bail. Also, as long as they taper rather than cold turkey it will be fine. So no need to worry about discontinuation syndrome unless you stop cold turkey.
 
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