Posted by Alexanderfromdenmark on May 26, 2009, at 15:32:56
In reply to To anybody lost on SSRIs, posted by West on May 23, 2009, at 11:58:40
> Over time,
> as consciousness is changed through drugs, so too, inevitably, is the outlook, the view; and while the worst of our symptoms are relieved, a gradual sense of dullness creeps in, and without proper emotional nourishment, apathy, turning eventually into a sort of resigned cynicism, seem to characterise the SSRI experience
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> irrational, but native, thoughts of anxiety, fear, jealousy, anger, lust, joy et al. fly under the radar, often in far subtler ways than you'd know, and I am concerned about how this directly affects person's character, their 'native' makeup and behaviour (do they become designers where before they wanted to be painters for example, or librarians instead of authors?)
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> I myself find it too sad see connections fall just out of reach even among those most cherished.
I consider my decision of staying on a SSRI For a year to be the worst decision i've ever made. But couldn't know and wasn't informed that it could dull my intellect and person as much as it did.
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