Went through a few antidepressants. Finally stuck with one that works okay. Then I got diagnosed with ADHD. Turns out all my body needed was some Adderall!
Thanks, doc
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areakode@riskeratspizza.com 3 weeks ago
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I also had to go through multiple burnouts or depressions (I’m not sure where to put these, difficult to draw a line). Kinda sad how this is not screened straight away, given the commoness of that condition.
Miller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doc: we are all interested in your bum Me: my bum? Doc: your bum, we want to stick six feet of hosepipe up there Me: I don’t want that to happen Doc: expect not, are you free next Tuesday morning?
Dadifer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🎶 check the poo, check the poo 🎶
🎶 our number one test is your number two 🎶
snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tbf the weight gain attributable to sris is tiny, like 0.5 kg over 6 months
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t heve experience but would think that’s different from individual to individual
snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s true that differences between how individuals react to sris is pretty large and that <0.5kg number is a population wide average
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That may be true for SSRIs, but I have bipolar, and I’m on an antipsychotic that also has antidepressant properties. It made me gain hella weight.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Keep your mind light and your booty heavy. Ask your doctor for our antidepressant today!”
snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah other meds are different. I assumed OOP was referring to sris because of the cum thing
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Idk, after I went on antidepressants only a couple of years later I put on loads of weight
snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately it’s pretty hard to tease these things apart because depression itself causes weight gain and there are medication adherence issues especially with longer term studies, but the most well-controlled data suggests that sris don’t play much of a role in weight gain for most people
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t remember what type of antidepressant it was, but my psychiatrist prescribed me one that fucked my weight a lot.
It was around after the Covid lockdowns lifted, so it passed like half a year before having an in person visit, we were doing by phone as much as possible, when she saw me again she had a shocked pikachu face and said “that’s not normal weight gain, that’s due the meds I knew the weight gain is a side effect, I’m going to change them to XYZ that has the same effect but the weight gain side effect”
And so was “You did knew, and there this ones that do the same without the weight gain. Why didn’t you prescribed this ones at first place?”
Doug@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
mirtazapine undid like a year of weight loss progress in under two months and then some; put me back up to the most I’ve ever weighed. I’m off it now and in a better place, but now I gotta get back to it. and the anal fissure doesn’t help ‘cause now I can’t bike anymore until that shit goes away, which has been taking forever to get fully treated.
now it’s boring, accessible treadmills for me and calorie counting all over again. 7 pounds down, 30 more to go.
I wish I didn’t hate exercise so much.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do they have one to increase the urgency to not be a fat ass?
Gormadt@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
With the amount of different meds they have available I’m sure there’s one.
When I first went to the doc about my anxiety over the course of 1 year they had me try 15 different anti-anxiety meds before I threw in the towel and said “None of these are working for me and I need to stop this for a little while as it’s really fucking with me.”
About a year later I got diagnosed with ADHD and started meds for that and suddenly my anxiety was in check. In 3 years I’ve only had 2 panic attacks vs nearly weekly ones before. It also feels like I went from going through life on Legendary difficulty to something like Medium. Or put another way: it’s like I went from playing Dark Souls 3 to playing Witcher 3.
teslekova@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I wish they did, mate.
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You probably just need to find the right exercise. Sounds crazy, but playing drums for example also counts as exercise, and at least to me is highly addictive.
The “runners high” can also be kinda addictive (or more generally of your favourite sport)
Apart of that, Psychedelics may also be worth a try, they seem very promising in research currently. But don’t mix them with SSRIs…
unazebra@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s a testing called genesight that I did through my doctor (so seemingly not sending my DNA to a private company like 23&me) that helped me identify which SSRI would metabolize with the fewest side effects with my specific body chemistry. For those lucky enough to have health insurance, I think insurance will pay for it after 2 attempted SSRIs with bad side effects.
I wish for rest & gentleness for us all. 🪻🪻
jade52@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Holy shit I wish I knew about this like 4 years ago. Would have saved me all the drama of trying each of them out until prozac was the only one that didn’t make me nauseous af
Toga77@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same. I literally almost died because paxil wasn’t something I could even take and it was giving me serotonin syndrome.
2 years on now, after the test, found a far better drug with no side effects for me.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
me: I’m sad
Local feral cat: Here’s my three kittens. I must go now, my planet needs me
Vet: This will be expensive and exhausting for you
Therapist: Pets would be good for you, but you won’t be able to keep up with the necessary work and routines. Maybe at a later time.
me: Oh yea? I’ll show you! I will attempt to keep up with the necessary work and routines!
Me again: I failed and broke down immediately
Still me: gotta give up the cats
Yet again me: Perfect…
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Started working out, which helped immensely.
Turns out that sitting inside and looking at doomers is bad for your well-being.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
When I was in a hole, I had to get drunk and workout on alternating days.
IamMoonPie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d rather have weird side effects and be fat than be dead.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
The great depresh was such an eye opening comedy special for me.
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
sertralin works perfectly fine w/o that stuff
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For some. If it works for you, you’re lucky. Especially if it’s the first drug you tried.
For others, depression treatment can be a gauntlet of bouncing around between different drugs and drug classes. Some drugs do the opposite of what’s intended. Some take weeks before you know if it’s working or not. if not, and you have to stop taking it, you either go cold Turkey risking bizarre withdrawal symptoms and worse issues, or its a slow taper of weeks or months to avoid those.
There are things with higher success rates, like ketamine, MDMA, and electroconvulsive therapy (which sounds scary, but it’s been and continues to be refined and modernized). Although these are known to work, they’re a lot more expensive if they’re even accessible, and patients (at least in my area) have to survive the drugs and talk therapy gauntlet first before they’re allowed to use them.
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
tldr
TipRing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sertraline was actual torture for me. I stopped sleeping entirely, had constant chills, pounding headache, mood instability where I would just start sobbing for no reason. Started on week 3 and by the end of the week I was begging my doctor to take me off it.
Sister had similar results. I ended up on different meds.
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i am very sorry to hear that
LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Took me a few months on sertraline to get back to my horny self and even being able to cum - a frustrating few months indeed - but it helps a ton with the anxiety and eventually I got back to busting nuts so I think it’s worth it.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wish
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are you daft? It works perfectly fine without side effects for some amount of people. But not nearly everyone.
I’ve stayed on it because I don’t want to go through the hassle of trial and error with others, but I don’t have that many side effects after many dose modifications.
It’s asinine to think it works for everyone as intended. Please educate yourself before spouting such bs.
Also, it’s Sertraline (generic name).
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Went to therapy for depression and high anxiety.
Put me on depakote. Gained a lot of weight(spare tire) and ended up with body dismorphia which made me even more depressed.
Quit that therapist and went to another who pulled me off of it. Body went back to normal. Just needed someone to talk to. Helped me realize that I cared too much about what others thought.
My anxiety was due to trying too hard to people please when most people don’t know themselves what pleases them. And the depression was me failing to help others.
If they don’t know, how the fuck am I supposed to help them. Answer: Don’t. Help myself and by extension I help everyone. Problem not solved but definitely more managed.
Came up with the phrase “Slow the Decay”. Best way to do that is by making suggestions that others may or may not take. If they do, I helped slow the Decay. If not, then it’s not my fault. Can’t help the entire world, but I can help slow the decay in my small part of it.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Love the ones where you never wake up and are constantly moving through a fog.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idk not waking up sounds pretty nice ngl
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You’re kinda still doing stuff, you’re just disconnected. It’s all the bad, not much of the good.
4grams@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
I keep trying to be seen for therapy, or to get a diagnosis. All they ever do is prescribe me another brain pill that does nothing but gives me hemroids.
Mental health in the US is completely fucked, efforts aren’t made, unless it’s for a pill they can sell you.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I keep looking for some neurologists to switch anti-seizure medications (valproic-acid is a garbage medication - no, 10+ hours of sleep due to medication side effects is not “healthmaxxing”), but most here in Hungary are only interested in people paying them for chronic numbness and similar stuff.
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How many calories do these pills have?
SourDragon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can’t lose weight, but that’s okay because the lack of appetite balances that out! (A common side effect my antidepressants have)
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lucky
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
*that can also make your symptoms far worse!
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Huh. Ever seen side effects of depression?
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Death
Frigidlollipop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s wild to me that it feels like we’ve thrown in the towel on creating conditions good for human health mentally. Im not always the most chipper of people, but I thought it was wild that Ive had multiple coworkers casually and openly discuss how hard adjusting to ssri medication has been for them.
Life sucks? Stressed? Hate your life and or job? Take a pill…
Im not discounting that the medication actually helps a lot of individuals. I just hate that it has become the blanket remedy to unhappy mental states. Even eating healthy, positive social relationships, and exercising gets written off quickly.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Lexapro sucks and I don’t understand how pills from a psychiatrist who only knew you for an hour can be trusted not to fuck you up even more
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
on the shitpost meter, you score 55%
Korne127@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lose weight? Didn’t know that was supposed to be a thing, I was able to lose 10kg in some months. However, the sexual side effects are real
majster@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Damn so many people in the comments on this stuff
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
With venlafaxine (SNRI), you don’t have the weight gain, but it fucks up your heart. Love the positive effects, though, still have to switch and I don’t like that at all. There is no similar SNRI. It is suggested to try sertraline + modafinil.
UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
+1 for venlafaxine, which I also had to switch from because it gave me hypertension. zoloft doesn’t hit the same.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If only my insurance provider believed mental health care was worth covering more, I might be in a better place. And medicated.
(UHC can suck my fat hog)
necromansor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Lol
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mirtazapine is an appetite stimulant. They give it to old people a lot so they eat and sleep better. Happy it works for you though
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe for you. Obviously it’s not the same for everyone. I gained like 20 kg on it. I’m back down now after stopping and really trying to lose it.
All of these medications work drastically differently depending on the person.
Why do people not think of this?
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
I’m on fluoxetine without really any issue.
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just wait until it turns into pills and you’re still fucked and now worse off. Your brain chemistry might change permanently.
Hard pass.
blueamigafan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck shit like this, I was having VERY stupid thoughts about ending my existence until my girlfriend dragged me to the doctors, yes there are side effects but the alternative is that otherwise I wouldn’t be here anymore.
OriginalTangle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Meme 's aside, SSRIs can be a blessing. I’m experiencing it right now.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think the “joke” is that those side effects would make you very sad as well. Pretty counterproductive to the whole problem itself. 😅
But hey, I’m very glad you made it out of that state, and your girlfriend sounds like a real keeper. 💖 Keep on trucking! 🙏
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
of course it’s a joke, but i still find it inappropriate, because it might prevent some people from getting help. even if it would cost one person from not getting help, is to much.
and it’s not like you usually have a bonobos sex drive while being in a heavy depression ;) unfortunately speaking from experience.
manuremy@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Nah, I can’t have feelings sor orgasms and get more fat on top of that, I might as well really end it lol