SSRIs

My doctors want to put me on SSRIs, specifically Lexapro. Will this fuck up my ability to lift and stay fit?

Not a doctor and I've never taken them, but they almost certainly will fuck shit up.

Good luck with your depression, friendo. Lots of us have been there.

>not a dr
>never taken them
>will certainly fuck shit up

You're a moron. SSRIs will not fuck up your lifting. I lift even better on them as they give me energy.

I started a low dose of Paxil a few months ago. The initial side effects (near-constant diarrhea, brain fog/malaise) resulted in an involuntary cut, but they subsided after a few weeks and i'm starting to feel better.

If your shit is to a point where this medication is the right thing, you need to not worry about what will happen to your lifts and focus on improving your mental health. Good luck bro

SSRIs commonly result in weight gain but the jury is out over whether this is because of increased appetite, decreased basal metabolism, or lethargy. Why do they want you on an SSRI?

you'll feel the sexual side effects.

Just kills libido.

if anything it will help your lifts. the sustained serotonin reuptake inhibitor will keep your good feels flowing longer so you don't stay a sadsack of fatback in bed.

Fuck that. Wellbutrin and ashwagandha are better combo. An SSRI will fuck up your dick health

From what I gather, everyone reacts to SSRIs differently. Some people gain weight some lose, some have no effect. However, my evidence is unfortunately purely anecdotal

Google Lexapro side effects I took it for 5 years fuck that shit never again not worth it

didn't kill my libido but couldn't cum on them

Second this. Used to beat my dick like it owed me money. Now I rarely jack off. Also causes delayed ejaculation. Took me two hours to get off during sex and it's to the point where I don't even want to do it anymore since my FWB dries up after an hour then I have to beat my dick raw to reach climax. On the upswing when I bust on her face she's awed by the size of the cum shot. So there's that.

you literally don't need it

Yes. Tell him to fuck off, take 500mg of aspirin twice a day (except mornings before lifting) and go to a hypnotist.

Fuck you

It could be a chemical imbalance, or it could just that your life is shitty and you're sick of it.

I'm not saying avoid all SSRI/depression medication, but clean your room. Take a shower every night.

This when I was on citolpram I literally couldn't cum unless I jackhammerd my dick for an hour

Changing career can help too if possible. I've recently started a new job that I actually enjoy and it feels like a new lease of life. If you are wagecucked then obviously it'll depress you

is this animal abuse

Want new job
Have to choose
>More money but way less free time
>Stay at job I hate
>Become fitness trainer doing what I love but be broke

Secret last option
>Kms myself

Be broke on the outside and non-broken on the inside. It'll work out if you really, really love your job as a fitness trainer. Search for an entrepreneur in fitness and become partners or something. Just think.

Are you getting enough protein? Are you getting 1g/lb.?

I've been taking an SSRI for 2 years now and the only side effects ive gotten were weight gain and lethargy. Good luck bro.

Fellow depression sufferer here

SSRIs fuckes up my drive and I think have permanently lowered my test a year after stopping them. Only reason I ever went on them was to stop the crazy when it was getting too much in a bad time in my life.

Still wish I never went on them, after a while you just deal with a different type of depression that comes from having your personality nuked into nothing by meds.

I'm not so down now, but since my time on meds I feel like any drive I had got killed and I'm still trying to recover my personality. Haven't managed to hold down any relationship since my meds time and it's all too easy to slip back into staring into space like you do on meds still.

I know it's hard, and most countries healthcare is wo fully set up to help but try to get axial counselling / therapy, not pills. Drs just chuck out pills that fuck you up and will keep playing chemistry set if you say these pills aren't the ones for you until they find an SSRI that stops you complaining.

No but it'll fuck up your libido

As an idiot who took these stupid pills for a while I agree. Feel like a fucking god now that I meditate and lift.

Fuck you, keep taking your worthless libido killing, suicide inducing zombie pills. Dr. Shecklesteinberg approves

I had the exact same experience.

As long as you can afford the basics, and some savings, then pick time. Time to do the things you want will make you far happier.

Agree, they stabilised me though a bad time but I think with other help I could have managed, managed better too.

SSRIs have permanent effects on your brain that leave you a little more fucked for life.

Took citalopram for a year and a half, it killed my libido. I have been off it since October 2015 and my libido has not returned.

Its my own fault, I should have tried talking therapy first but my chest was so tight from anxiety - I wanted the pain to stop.

You're a fucking moron and clearly have no understanding of SSRI's impact on body chemistry

They will only help you by improving your mood. In uncommon cases SSRI's can inhibit sex drive if taken in significant dosage daily (think 100mg+).

t. did my fucking research and have been taking 25 mg zoloft generic for the past two years.

Bump

Will they fuck up my ability to study and take away my drive to take my CPA exam? Or the opposite?

antideprssants are overprescribed for a reason.

your (((doctor))) wants to hop you up on goofballs so he can put a down payment on a new car

I remember taking that. it gave me telogen effluvium.
dont fall for the anti jewpressent meme

Ayyyy been on 200mg/day Zoloft for 2.5 years now
>mfw almost no sex drive
>take long as shit to cum when banging gf
>start beating it to porn regularly again
>still takes fucking long and can barely ever cum with gf without needing to jerk it for 10-15 min
B-but hey, anxiety is better now

Studies show all ssri drugs do not produce good results. The only thing they're consistently good at is making you kill yourself. Tbqh I'd try to stay off them senpai.