Hey Veeky Forums, after a couple years of being consumed by my anxiety it has finally got me on my knees. Today I got a prescription for 10mg of "Cipralex". I've researched the drug pretty thoroughly but I want to get some feedback from some of you guys who have taken Cipralex/some other type of anti-depressant. >Does it affect your drive/motivation to go to the gym? >Does it lower your libido to the point of having ED? >Have these pills helped with your overall wellbeing >If not, what did they do to you instead?
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Adam Campbell
listen here goober, everyone's different, meaning every brain is different. you have to try it for yourself and see what works for you, could be cipralex, could be another antidepressant, who fucking knows. just start that shit, and take it day by day. if it makes you feel like shit for a while, go back to your doc and tell him it doesn't work. he'll probably give you something else.
Michael Martinez
Thanks user, I understand that. I'm just trying to hear others' experience's with it just so I know what I can POTENTIALLY go through, all love though! Have you taken any?
Jonathan Price
>>Does it affect your drive/motivation to go to the gym? It might. >>Does it lower your libido to the point of having ED? It might. >>Have these pills helped with your overall wellbeing It might. >>If not, what did they do to you instead? Took zoloft for a few months during a bad time in my life. It gave me diarrhea for the first week, and gradually lessened the existential pain I had been feeling, but not to the point of going away. I was a bit overwhelmed when I got off of it, as if I was experiencing my emotions for the first time, but that lasted a few days tops.
Citalopram didn't affect me much for the few weeks I was on it, just felt hornier when I got off of it.
I'd say SSRIs are a bit like horse blinders. They make you more dull to your emotions, which is great if emotions are getting in the way of you living life the way you want to. The important thing is to take action while you're on them, otherwise you might find your mental state returning to where it was before you started taking them.
Good luck OP
Robert Jenkins
green text cuz long story >doc puts me on effexor >anxiety is mild but take it anyway >wake up next day, have first ever panic attack while driving to class >thought i was about to die >have several more panic attacks that week >develop bad anticipatory anxiety about panic attacks >enter limbo for next several months where I have crippling anxiety some days >constantly focused on myself, how i'm feeling, bodily sensations >think i'm developing schizophrenia >continue to scare myself with "what ifs" >continue to suffer for two months
lasted for the better part of 2014. shit fucked me up bad, but a lot of it was my own doing. still super scary though.
Logan Carter
just started zoloft a few days ago and I feel like it actually does help my anxiety enough to focus and I dont get so lightheaded during workouts but again I just started
Cooper Butler
I was always a bit shy but never to the point of having social anxiety, until I took effexor.
Fuck That Shit
Joshua Bailey
I'm actually on Cipralex and it helps me a lot. I haven't had an anxiety attack since December last year and it has stabilized my mood. To answer your questions: - It has affected my motivation for the gym. I'm much more motivated. - My libido was shot because of depression so for me it has now gone up. No ED since grill.. - it has helped my wellbeing drastically
