Posted by Dale on June 24, 2001, at 18:36:31
In reply to Do the SSRI's PERMANANTLY alter your brain?, posted by Janelle on June 24, 2001, at 15:40:58
Janelle,
I have been wondering the same thing and it is really starting to scare me. I have been on zoloft for 2 1/2 years, going off of it now and starting paxil (which I am wondering about ...). Doctors have told me that the SSRIs just alter things and when you go off the medication everything will be normal. I have always wondered though.
Please read my posting above on Tardive dyskinesia, which I have been recently looking into a bit. Do you have any types of tics or other muscle things going on? Please tell mw you story - what you are taking, etc.
Hope to talk to you soon, and maybe we will both find some answers.
Dale
> I'm so confused now, having read in two sources that the SSRI's "trick" your brain into thinking it has more serotonin and/or norepinephrine, so the brain may "stop" producing it, leading to depletion. Does anyone know if this is PERMANENT? I don't want to be on the med(s) for the rest of my life if I can get well, but I fear that by having been on them so long, my brain has been "permanently" altered or damaged with the serotonin stuff - anyone with info, please respond. Thanks!
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