In 2014 I got on SSRIs the first time, and they were amazing. I wrote online about how I suddenly had energy to do things, could concentrate on stuff, and generally just felt better and happier.

I now got a message from someone who’d found my writings and was wondering what my experience with antidepressants was now, 10 years later.

I wrote this reply to them, and thought I might as well share it with others:

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Hi, that was indeed me!

I was on SSRIs for about a year after writing that comment, after that it felt like they started losing some of their effect but I also thought I felt better for other reasons, so I stopped using them. Then I was off them for about a year or two and started feeling bad again, so I got back on them. They [...]

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First published:
September 22nd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FRZCDBbSNDHz3ZzaD/my-10-year-retrospective-on-trying-ssris

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“My 10-year retrospective on trying SSRIs ” by Kaj_Sotala

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