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
That’s why I love mertazapine! All of the better, none of the bad, saved my life probably
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?
That can have some really frightening (if rare) side effects! Bupropion is similar in that it has few side effects and isn’t an SSRI. Works ok, just don’t take too much or you’ll seize 🙃
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
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?
🎶 check the poo, check the poo 🎶
🎶 our number one test is your number two 🎶
Quit your prancing, Dorothy!
I have a sigmoidoscopy on the horizon and I saw the doctor’s referral and noticed it said something like “no anesthesia needed” - madam who made that decision? 😭
Gas and air it like a hero.
“He’s a pro.”
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.
Yeah there are more important things than cumming and losing weight. A lot of more important things! Hope you’re thriving
I don’t think so. I’m taking myself sertraline and the weight gain affects my physical health.
Maybe the cumming part it’s not that important tho, although I think that’s a really good form of emotional and distress regulation.
Meme 's aside, SSRIs can be a blessing. I’m experiencing it right now.
They really can be. Even tho escitalopram made me feel numb that was still a better mood than before I was taking it
That’s what I had heard before and also that it takes a while to start working so I was quite surprised when I finally hopped on it myself. It’s only been a few days so big caveat here but: I already felt the first pill of 20mg. So much so that I asked my GP to go down to 10mg and I feel that too. And the feeling is reminiscent of an MDMA roll “afterglow” (as it’s sometimes called). Just a happy feeling in my stomach for hours and hours, coloring the thoughts that come to my head and making everything seem easier and lighter.
I wonder if it will stay like this or whether this is just a particularly pleasant adjustment period.
Oh I definitely know what you’re talking about, I’ve done xtc multiple times when I was younger and the first day I took escitalopram it was like I had taken a very low dose of xtc. For me that only happened on the first day, tho
Good to hear that they’re working for you tho! Keep at it
Nah, if I can’t have feelings sor orgasms and get more fat on top of that, I might as well really end it lol
It’s a joke in a shitpost forum. Calm down.
Was gonna post this but then then I came so hard I lost weight instead
This guy I was replying to can’t do either of those things and now you’re a problem
doctors hate this simple trick
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! 🙏
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.
A lot of mine takes the form of seeking dumb instant gratification, so that may be subjective. 🤷♂️
I hear you, that’s a very valid perspective.
If only my insurance provider believed mental health care was worth covering more, I might be in a better place. And medicated.
(UHC can choke on my fat hog)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
Last SSRI I took gave me serotonin syndrome. Turns out it’s probably my dopamine that’s out of whack and I’m borderline schizophrenic. Also turns out that keeping on a anti psychotic is expensive and I haven’t been medicated for years. I have a place where I want to kill myself and a time. I just can’t really take it anymore. The psychotic breaks the delusions the borderline hallucinations are starting to really get to me. The anxiety so bad I can’t even look at a wall without freaking out. (Thanks dad and step mother for the ptsd) The depression that makes me genuinely depressed about where I live and the fact that there is nothing to do in this part of bumfuck America. Like I am getting better. I know how to handle the delusions and have kept them at bay. Looking at a wall doesn’t freak me out that much anymore and honestly like as long as I keep away from stimulants that will give me seizures now for some reason with things even as little as nicotine or caffeine. Like I don’t know though. The world is a terrible place at the moment and I genuinely don’t have options with the people who I live with trying to starve me to get a job. Like I can’t get a job without an ID and the fact I was born in Germany in 1998 before they did anything mandatory like gosh forbid logging births in the country or giving citizenship to people born there kinda freaks me out a lot. I wish people would support me. But most Americans are sociopaths who believe in individualism or some shit. I know I would be treated like shit being homeless anyway. Why not kill myself early? Is what I constantly think to myself. I know it’s terrible to think about this stuff but like the cognitive dissonance is real and it’s how people die with depression. If I am going to be denied treatment from my own government and country as a whole or go without any sort of compensation for being the way that I am. What the genuine fuck is the point of any of this??? I don’t know sorry for venting here to a meme community and sorry whatever mod is going to delete and see this and feel genuinely terrible for my situation. Also I would hate being dragged into a mental hospital local to my area that kills old people. (Because they also have no good options or support.) There are no good hospitals for inpatient care where I live. Plus it’s expensive and I can’t indebt my mother with that much debt. If she does take charge of me or whatever. That’s the thing though. You call the suicide hotline and they basically give you a list of places to goto and it’s either therapy that costs money that you don’t have or they want to send you to grippy sock jail where you get shoved with tens of thousands of dollars in debt even with insurance as they basically experiment with you. Also yes lemmy users I am fucking American. This place is much worse than you even know. I hope this comment doesn’t get noticed by law enforcement because it wouldn’t be pretty funny to have the police talk to me about this in the morning and search and steal all my stuff.
Tbf the weight gain attributable to sris is tiny, like 0.5 kg over 6 months at most
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?”
I don’t heve experience but would think that’s different from individual to individual
It’s true that differences between how individuals react to sris is pretty large and that <0.5kg number is a population wide average
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.
Yeah other meds are different. I assumed OOP was referring to sris because of the cum thing
A totally fair assumption.
“Keep your mind light and your booty heavy. Ask your doctor for our antidepressant today!”
Bye bye bad moody, hello phat booty! Thanks, medicine name!
I gained like 70lbs then lost it all after getting off of them. Losing that much weight while depressed was a bitch and a half.
There is no way that amount of weight gain was caused by an sri. Maybe you were on something else like an atypical/tricyclic antidepressant? Or maybe you were just depressed?
Maybe you were on something else like an atypical/tricyclic antidepressant
Nope
Or maybe you were just depressed?
No shit. But I was depressed before, and I was depressed after. It was over a period of more than a year. Same for the loss. I didn’t just puff up like Violet in a chocolate factory lol.
didn’t just puff up like Violet in a chocolate factory
I’m sure you didn’t. I don’t doubt that the meds contributed somewhat, but there’s just no evidence that these agents can cause a weight gain of that magnitude on their own. Even the individual uncontrolled longitudinal studies that show the highest amounts of weight gain demonstrate at most 5-8kg increase.
Over what time period? The figure you “cited” is worthless without that.
Idk, after I went on antidepressants only a couple of years later I put on loads of weight
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
Ya, I was being silly, my weight gain has other sensible explanations
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.
Lol
Lol!
Huh. Ever seen side effects of depression?
Death
