SSRI's and recreational value

[Voxide]

People with bipolar suffer "manic" and "depressive" phases. By society's rules being manic is not good because you can get into all kinds of trouble. Basically your mind races and you feel a natural high and everything seems doable and you get everything done, multitask, start businesses, build towers, write books, anything. But you may also do some really bad things without realizing it. But with bipolar after wards you go deep into a really depressive state, nearly suicidal. Some drugs can produce manic phases like methamphetamine but its limited mostly to bipolar

Thanks for clarifying. I've heard the term lots of times and knew it had something to do with bipolar disorder but never really understood what it meant. I always seemed to connect the word to psychotic delusions.

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

Well it basically is psychotic delusions. Delusions is one of the most common symptoms and you can act psychotic.

 

[rollingstoned!]

Depends if you like pure added serotonin activity or not. If you like the consequences of extra serotonin, then they can be. I haven't ever seen someone who has. What defines recreational?

 

[moneyman1985]

opiates are the shit bro

 

[zagzig]

not recreational; typical side effects (when starting medication) include nausea...

 

[purple_cloud]

SSRIs are not recreational, at all, whatsoever. I took Citalopram for longest, and it was pretty much a consistent "feeling too good," and since I stopped taking them a few months ago I've been absolutely miserably depressed (currently handling this with psych care). The most annoying side effect was being light headed whenever standing up, and no sex drive. SNRIs and wellbutrin didn't seem to be any better...if you find feeling dizzy and no sexual desire recreational, then perhaps, but you live in a twisted world if that's the case.

 

[Voxide]

Depends if you like pure added serotonin activity or not. If you like the consequences of extra serotonin, then they can be. I haven't ever seen someone who has. What defines recreational?

What exactly are the consequences of extra serotonin? Levels can eventually be balanced out after stopping the medication, no?

Also, what I mean by recreational is, can I take one and get high from it. I guess you could just say whether or not it is psychoactive. SSRI's actually are psychoactive. At least to people who need the medication anyway. But for the purposes of this thread, what I wanted to know what would happen if a person took a single dose of Paxil/Prozac who doesn't have a condition which would warrant its use. Would you even feel anything at all from 1 dose, taken as if it was an opiate?

To those who responded, thanks for the info. I have heard about some nasty side effects from SSRIs. Psychological in particular.

opiates are the shit bro

Nice, this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the thread.

 

[Mikexbud]

SSRI's did nothing for me but make me nauseous, and tired when I first started on em. I found later that they kept me from rolling, or tripping hard. If anything they hurt other highs.