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Re: Prozac making me Apathethic

Posted by Meri-Tuuli on May 20, 2006, at 17:26:00

In reply to Prozac making me Apathethic, posted by rjlockhart on May 20, 2006, at 14:46:38

oh my goodness! Yes! SSRIs are completely apathy inducing. TOTALLY!! And its really annoying because its not something that doctors know about!!

Basically, SSRIs (obviously) just increase sertonin, and it completely ignores dopamine and noradrenaline . So you have this massive increase in Serontoin, but a 'lack' of dopamine and noradrenlin so obviously you then lose your 'emotions' associated with dopamine and nordrenline, eg drive, motivation, etc. There are a few threads on this I can't remember, there was a big thread on this a little while ago.
Sorry I've had a few drinks, eeek. But, for me personally, I am rather against SSRIs - seriously, they are not somehow 'balanced' so okay you may not be clinically depressed on them, but thats because they just numb (ie make you apathetic) you so you don't give a damn, but they don't actually make you 'happy' (whatever that is!)

I wasted a year and a half on celexa being a zombie, not caring what happened to me. I had zero motivation, slept all the time, and I couldn't concentrate. Seriously I thought it was 'me' at the time, but now I realised it was the medication.

Kind regards

Meri


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