4/5 people on antidepressants experience sexual side effects. These effects often persist after discontinuing medication. 1 in 7 British adults are currently taking antidepressants.
Sudden change in anti psychotics/anti depressants is always a rough change. You should have weekly follow ups with the doctor or CPN if you have one.
For medication changes with me, I have to have multiple doctors sign off on it via a consultation. Still tried to take my life last year and they just stopped them; I’m not sure if I’m worse off or better at this point.
I’m house bound for the most part but I’m not as suicidal, I guess.
It’s wild how many people are pushed into almost permanently taking these drugs
Why bother actually addressing deep societal issues when we can just throw pills at people?
Yes, I know some people truly need medication to help, I’m on sertraline myself, but dealing with increasing suicide rates and increasing widespread mental health issues is a sign of a sick society and throwing pills at everyone and everything isn’t a sustainable solution in my opinion.
There’s is something wrong with society when so many people are taking anti-depressants in the first place
SSRIs can be life saving, let us not dismiss that. I’m not about to go all “big pharma conspiracy!” on this. For many people, they do work.
For many though they’re a sticking plaster over a wound caused by something else.
For many men, this is low testosterone. I would bet one of my legs that this is what the issue was with this poor lad. I was in a very similar boat, fortunately my suicide attempt failed. TRT saved my life.
Most guys are clueless to this and the symptoms. No, it has no bearing on your dick size, that is genetic. What low testosterone does cause is depression, anxiety, low mood, lack of drive, poor confidence, chronic fatigue/tiredness/brain fog (just vaguely feeling like you’re “not there” or floating around in a dream), inability to put on weight, putting on weight too easily, poor quality of sleep. And it doesn’t need to be all of those at once obviously.
Furthermore SSRIs can make such symptoms *worse* in guys with low testosterone because they can raise estrogen levels. I was on them once and it was hell. I only recently (past few months) worked out that aspect and it was a good seven years ago.
There needs to be a massive discussion about this on a national level. People need to appear on TV talking about it. I’ve “saved” a few Redditors as I mention this a lot and a few have said “that sounds like me” have asked their GP to check their levels, and lo-and-behold, low testosterone. But it needs to go further than a few people on Reddit.
Like I say, I would bet limbs that this young man and many like him would still be alive had this option been looked into. This is something of a national emergency and seemingly *no one* is talking about it.
I was prescribed Fluoxetine (also known as Prozac) as a young teen and it caused developmental issues during puberty. Anti depressants are handed out like candy at the moment without enough awareness on the side effects.
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4/5 people on antidepressants experience sexual side effects. These effects often persist after discontinuing medication. 1 in 7 British adults are currently taking antidepressants.
Sudden change in anti psychotics/anti depressants is always a rough change. You should have weekly follow ups with the doctor or CPN if you have one.
For medication changes with me, I have to have multiple doctors sign off on it via a consultation. Still tried to take my life last year and they just stopped them; I’m not sure if I’m worse off or better at this point.
I’m house bound for the most part but I’m not as suicidal, I guess.
It’s wild how many people are pushed into almost permanently taking these drugs
Why bother actually addressing deep societal issues when we can just throw pills at people?
Yes, I know some people truly need medication to help, I’m on sertraline myself, but dealing with increasing suicide rates and increasing widespread mental health issues is a sign of a sick society and throwing pills at everyone and everything isn’t a sustainable solution in my opinion.
There’s is something wrong with society when so many people are taking anti-depressants in the first place
SSRIs can be life saving, let us not dismiss that. I’m not about to go all “big pharma conspiracy!” on this. For many people, they do work.
For many though they’re a sticking plaster over a wound caused by something else.
For many men, this is low testosterone. I would bet one of my legs that this is what the issue was with this poor lad. I was in a very similar boat, fortunately my suicide attempt failed. TRT saved my life.
Most guys are clueless to this and the symptoms. No, it has no bearing on your dick size, that is genetic. What low testosterone does cause is depression, anxiety, low mood, lack of drive, poor confidence, chronic fatigue/tiredness/brain fog (just vaguely feeling like you’re “not there” or floating around in a dream), inability to put on weight, putting on weight too easily, poor quality of sleep. And it doesn’t need to be all of those at once obviously.
Furthermore SSRIs can make such symptoms *worse* in guys with low testosterone because they can raise estrogen levels. I was on them once and it was hell. I only recently (past few months) worked out that aspect and it was a good seven years ago.
There needs to be a massive discussion about this on a national level. People need to appear on TV talking about it. I’ve “saved” a few Redditors as I mention this a lot and a few have said “that sounds like me” have asked their GP to check their levels, and lo-and-behold, low testosterone. But it needs to go further than a few people on Reddit.
Like I say, I would bet limbs that this young man and many like him would still be alive had this option been looked into. This is something of a national emergency and seemingly *no one* is talking about it.
I was prescribed Fluoxetine (also known as Prozac) as a young teen and it caused developmental issues during puberty. Anti depressants are handed out like candy at the moment without enough awareness on the side effects.