Antidepressants

and yes SSRIs will permanently damage your brain

it's been 10 years and i still have the zombie stare from it. i'll never speak to my mother again.

lexapro made it where I couldn't cum which sucked because I couldn't even jack off.

So i opted off and found other ways to cope. My nephew being born really grounded me.

SSRI's got rid of me feeling down all the time, and replaced me with an avolition inflicted zombie. Eventually stopped taking them.
Working out works way better for mood and also I'm not a zombie anymore.

Still have avolition though.

This thread suddenly is making me grateful my psychiatrist appointment was cancelled today. I have some really bad depression and I'm deciding on cleansing my insides and quitting garbage so I can have the vulnerability to accept my issues and find peace

Meditation m8.
It doesn't matter if you're not spiritual or religious, just do it

why don't you stop being a pussy you fucking girly faggot?

>needing pills instead of manning up

disgraceful.

Man I am so glad I got into molymeme back in high school. I can look back and think what a fucking idiot I was for thinking ancap was tenable position but also that it made me so against ssris and the whole mental illnesses industry in general. Reading all you guys talk about how bad ssris were for you really makes me realize I dodged a bullet.

>SSRIs... do they work?
for some people, especially people with severe depression. they also give a lot of side-effects and they're often no better than placebo for people with mild or moderate depression. they don't solve depression, but they can sometimes allow a person to function well enough in daily life to work on their problems.

>brain zaps

I get these and I’ve never been on any medication in my life

It only happens when I’m close to falling asleep...wtf is it?

I used to get random episodes of feeling down for no reason at all, something I would call 'chemical sadness' (this was different from feeling down AFTER thinking things like "my life is going nowhere / I'm a failure / I'm alone"). Started taking escitalopram (lexapro/cipralex is the brand name), and those episodes went away. It also helped me realize I had anxiety, since that medication made a day and night difference in how my body reacted to social situations.

I still feel down or anxious sometimes, but it comes from reasonable external reasons, rather than for no reason at all. I have trouble crying now though which frustrates me sometimes. Also like () I had trouble cumming the first 2-3 months but I eventually adapted and I'm back to being able to jerk it a few times a day

So overall, pretty positive experience for me AND it does not make me feel like a zombie like a lot of people here have experienced. Everyone reacts to it differently though. Good luck OP