This is too broad of a question. There are many SSRIs and the people giving answers have not tried them all.
And each affect people differently.
I think the question was meant as, “what do/did they feel like to you, the person answering this question”
Like you’re one of a kajillion people who have ever lived, like an ant, and if someone came along and stepped on you, you’d be dead, just like most of the kajillion people who have ever lived, only to be replaced by another.
ETA- also sweaty, yawny, and either very interested or very not interested in sex and/or food.
That sounds more like mushrooms.
🤷 That’s how it felt to me.
IRC one of mushrooms’ main effects is to increase seratonin levels, so … Yeah, same basic thing.
First week it made me feel like there was a very light electric current running through my body. Not unpleasant, just a bit odd. Tingly. And yawning uncontrollably for a few hours after taking them for a few weeks.
Again, not unpleasant. But I absolutely embraced them, I did not fight the effects. I was very, very glad to try medications.
Now, after like 4 or 5 years, I can clearly tell the difference between before and after - the difference is, instead of downward spiralling into a hideous pit that I couldn’t climb out of, that spiralling downwards still starts, but it stops.
Instead of falling into the pit, I can just choose not to keep going down.
Things are still upsetting and I still take things worse than other people but I dont become out-of-control spiralling downwards forever until I can’t function. I have gained the ability to shrug and go “that sucks but, whatever”.
I felt this way, too. I also had a pleasant butterflies-in-my-stomach feeling near constantly for the first couple weeks.
Like the first ten minutes after waking up from a really hard, hot, nap, all day, every day.
First week it made me feel like there was a very light electric current running through my body. Not unpleasant, just a bit odd. Tingly. And yawning uncontrollably for a few hours after taking them for a few weeks.
Again, not unpleasant. But I absolutely embraced them, I did not fight the effects. I was very, very glad to try medications.
Now, after like 4 or 5 years, I can clearly tell the difference between before and after - the difference is, instead of downward spiralling into a hideous pit that I couldn’t climb out of, that spiralling downwards still starts, but it stops.
Instead of falling into the pit, I can just choose not to keep going down.
Things are still upsetting and I still take things worse than other people but I dont become out-of-control spiralling downwards forever until I can’t function. I have gained the ability to shrug and go “that sucks but, whatever”.
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For me it felt like an uncomfortably mild head high. Some slight anxiety spikes, mild SI, quicker to anger.
Grey, faded, like everything was some distance away.
Totally not for me.
This was my experience, as well. Every experience felt dull or muted. If anyone remembers adjusting the rabbit-ear antenna on an old TV, it felt like you were just an inch away from perfect reception; you can still tell what’s going on, but there’s a thick haze that just flattens everything out.
Same. Couldn’t even enjoy orgasms.
I couldn’t even have them. Sex felt kinda good, but nothing that was ever going to arrive anywhere. It felt good like someone rubbing your arm feels good. I couldn’t even get myself there and that is seriously messed up for me.
Yeah I’d spend hours trying to cum with a vibrator, and my clit would go numb before I came sometimes. If I did cum, it was the weakest most unsatisfying orgasm
I think Wellbutrin was like that for me.
They recently tried to put me on Duloxetine for migraine prevention. I couldn’t cum but I could sure get blue balls. Without getting into details I have an extremely high libido. Like per day, not per week or month.
I couldn’t stay on that med long enough to say if it worked. I hate migraines but that was impossible. Fortunately after that, they put me on Ajovy and that fixes the migraines with almost no side effects.
Wow. Ok, I’m glad now my doctor went with such a low dose now.
What in the actual fuck are SSRIs?
Common antidepressant. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors work be limiting how much serotonin your neurons gather back up after use. More serotonin around leads to more happy. Or so the theory goes. Antidepressants are very much vibes based and the best way to see what works is trial and error.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, ie antidepressants like Prozac
Everything felt lighter. Depression for me felt like someone had increased the effects of gravity just for me. It took immense effort to get out of bed or to make myself move to accomplish anything. The meds turned gravity back to normal.
Taking SSRIs, I feel like I’m living with an anvil strapped to my back.
Before I started on them, I felt like I was wrapped around the singularity at the center of a massive black hole. Utterly, utterly crushed; reduced down to the size of something that may as well be nothing. So far past the event horizon that I couldn’t even see it anymore.
At least an anvil can be useful for smithing something practical, hearty, and if one has the skill, something artful.
Like all of the bad parts of a very low dose of LSD without any of the fun.
Marginally happier for a few weeks and then absolutely nothing
They have no effect until you stop taking them. Then you hallucinate for a few weeks, like a low to medium dose of LSD.
Small, oblong, smooth but not slick. Very similar to many other pills.
The sexual side effects were more depressing than the depression.
