A psychiatrist prescribed me Zoloft for "Anxiety, Depression, and mild ADD" I looked up what zoloft is for and it seems to be for everything.
Redpill me on SSRIs and Zoloft, should I take it or will it just make me worse or cuck me?
>>29359431
Try it for at least 4 months. Go to therapy, too. Medication alone won't fix you.
I've been on Zoloft for 3 years and it's the only medication that's ever worked for me. Good luck, OP.
>millions of morons taking meds for their mental problems
Literally all you have to do is eat healthier and fucking exercise. I thought that I was an "incurable bipolar" as an edgy teen; but once I stopped drinking a litre of pop and a bag of chips every day, and went outside once in a while, all of the sudden I didn't feel nearly as shitty.
The western world is full of fat, lazy fucks sucking the teet of pharmacy corporations; and this is why we're doomed.
>>29359937
Yes because going outside will get rid of all the hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia etc., I dont think you have even met a fucking schizo. They fucking shit their beds, call people their mommies, and strangle people because they think they are the devil. Have you been inside a fucking mental hospital? Those people cant even be treated with the medication they give them (and yes the are fucking let outside and walk in circles around the facilities all day).
Zoloft didnt work for me it made me shaky all day, didnt help very much with bipolar or SAD (later diagnosed), was on it for years because i didnt know shit about mental illness.
>>29359937
people like you are fucking dangerous. Of course companies want to make money, but at the same time medication does help. Go watch another Alex Jones video, you got some water filters and supplements to buy dipshit.
It's shit if you don't have situational depression. I fell for the pharma meme and was prescribed sertraline (Zoloft) but I'm not taking it any more. If I take it two days in a row, I can't cum; more than that, and I can barely get hard at all. I couldn't even masturbate. I also kept clenching my jaw and the tremor hasn't gone away yet.
Fuck the pharma jews. It's the second antidepressant I tried and the second that did literally nothing. I tried explaining to the doctor that I only get depressed in winter and I have hypomanic episodes, which rules out major depression, but they doctors are all retards who don't listen, they just want to throw meme pills at you until you fuck off.
I'm really angry right now and it doesn't have a whole lot to do with this, I'm just ranting, but everything I said was true. Fuck the medical establishment.
>>29360430
Not him, but:
>I dont think you have even met a fucking schizo
OP isn't a schizo you goon.
>Those people cant even be treated with the medication they give them
So, by your own admission, medication doesn't work for mild cases, and it doesn't work for extreme cases. So it doesn't fucking work, does it, retard?
Antidepressants aren't an exact science. They all have a 50% ish success rate, so there's a lot of people they don't work for. That said, for me they've been a godsend. Switched from an SSRI to an SNRI and it was a massive improvement, no brain fog and functioning much better. Side effects are really minor, slightly harder to orgasm and sweat a little more than I used to, but that's it. Well worth it.
TL;DR if you need them, you need them, and don't let the anti-pharma nuts get to you. But keep a close eye on yourself and check in with your doctor. If they don't help you then try another pill, or consider therapy.
>>29360430
I was in one once. Most of them are pretty chill, but some can be pretty terrifying.
>>29359937
Tried it once. kept it up for six months. no change in my mood. fuck off with your /fit/ memes
>>29359431
works for some people, apparently. did nothing for me, except break my dick. give it a go for a few months, but don't be afraid to demand a change if you aren't noticing any benefits
If you have to take pills to function as normal human being then you don't deserve to live.
>>29360837
For some medication does work, for others no but its worth a try.
>>29361533
It works as well as placebo, but with added side-effects.
Zoloft works in fewer than 30% of patients in virtually every study ever conducted on the matter; however, due to the fact that even 15% of the patients who took the placebo version faced positive results, it's got ~40% chance of working, so it's not bad to try it out.
If you experience any of the negative side effects after 6 weeks, it's best to discontinue use immediately.
It didn't work for me.
>>29361613
>discontinue use immediately
Not immediately, because the pharma jew added some withdrawal symptoms to keep your suckling at their teat. You have to taper or you get brain zaps and rebound depression/anxiety.
>>29359937
>i retardedly self diagnosed and now i think all mental illnesses are fake
thanks doc
>>29361546
Zoloft didnt work for me but buspar did does that mean zoloft doesn't work at all? idfk all I know is if its still on the market that means something
>>29359431
Personally never did well on zoloft. I think it depends on the person
>>29359431
>it seems to be for everything
Read up "placebo effect". It's how SSRI work.
SSRIs will definitely cuck you up with sexual dysfunction.
>>29359431
Why would you think fucking /r9k/ is a better place for medical advice than either your psychiatrist, who spent years studying this stuff, or your local pharmacist, who spent years studying the actual functions of the drugs.
Do you think any of us know more than they do?
>>29359937
You have a point that those are all steps you should take before medication, same as fixing your sleep patterns if possible, and I agree that people are way too willing to just take a pill for it instead of actually doing anything that takes effort. But medication is necessary for some people.
>>29360430
Have you ever actually met a schizophrenic person? It's not like hollywood mate, very few are violent, and they're not even psychotic most of the time.
>>29359431
If you want to feel fucking numbed to everything and if you're okay with gaining weight than by all means go for it.
>>29362056
Not the guy you replied to but i was a schizophrenic who used to walk around the mental hospital talking to myself because if I didn't the voice would make me feel pain all over so I did crazy shit it told me like attacking the workers there and jacking off in front of people and believing extreme conspiracies that seemed like it was the end of the world and everyone had powers to hurt me if I said anything bad inside my head. The voice in my head had me analyze everything to the point of reading everything in a language they created that seemed to make sense
>>29362158
That sounds very unlikely, the worst schizophrenic I've ever met in a ward wasn't that bad, he just was confused a lot and thought people were hurting him, but wasn't violent in the slightest, very, very few are. Same with you saying you were a schizophrenic, as if it goes away.
But I don't know your medical history, so assuming it's true and you were one of those sad cases that is that extremely paranoid and hostile, I hope you're doing well.
>>29362285
Also, I think it's silly for us to act like schizophrenics at the very worst part of their disorder, where they're taken out of the community is in any way what they're like most of the time. Schizophrenic's don't live in wards.
Yall niggas dont know shit about schizophrenia. Some cases can be cured with meds. Schizo and bad bipolar are the only dudes who acually should take medz
>>29362390
Most cases are curable with meds, or at least they can stop the psychotic features.
I think any case that stops you functioning at all, to the point where therapy isn't really an option, or you've seriously tried therapy and it doesn't work should try medication though.
>>29362285
Im a schizo and ive attacked 3 people because of what i thought i heard them say. Some of us are violent. He called me a fag (psychicly where i cant talk) so i beat em up. In lucky im not jailed
>>29362056
Go to a couple of mental hospitals then you will see. Ive been to a couple and there was always a schizo locked up in the "quiet room" for attacking someone. Obviously they arent all violent, they are just more violent than say someone with ocd.
>>29362491
I gotta take the antipsychotics or im worthless. Been fired ao many times because of the disorder
>>29362331
I'm >>29362158 and you're right. I was taken against my will to go to a ward because I tried to run away from home by jumping out the second floor window and my parents called the cops who sent me to an adult medical facility to keep me from hurting myself. Normally I'd only be there for a few days but because I had schizophrenia I had to stay there for a month and then go to an outpatient program for another month. They let me out eventually because one of the meds they were testing me on worked and I wasn't as crazy
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>>29359431
Had to quit because i couldnt get my dick up, preety much made me impotent for a month or so until i stopped taking it
>>29359937
Mental illnesses are real and change your perception of the world desu
>>29362528
I never went to a ward. My parents told me "o fried my brain" so i just believed them and accepted life as a retard for a year before i figured out what schizophrenia was
Smoke weed inb4 lmao
>>29362494
I've been in plenty, and the only person I've seen who needed to be locked away was Bipolar type one, and psychotic because of mania.
There are violent schizophrenics, but it's not in any way the majority. Hostility isn't necessarily related to psychosis. People with OCD can become violent just as much as a schizophrenic, it's about how distressed they are, not the disorder they have.
>>29362492
Sure.
>>29362509
Okay? I don't see why that's entirely relevant, but I'm glad you found meds that work.
>>29362521
Makes sense, and that was clearly an acute case.
I don't get why I'm getting the schizophrenics are violent internet defence force coming at me here, I don't see why anyone with an already highly stigmatised disorder would want others to stigmatise them even further by thinking they're violent. Assuming most of you are actually diagnosed, I should say.
>>29362568
Just bein honest here
>>29362542
The Med I'm on risperidone makes it so I cant cum. doctor said it was because my prolactin levels was at 50 when it's supposed to be at 12 max. I can still get hard tho
>>29359431
I am taking zoloft as well...helped me out a lot.
Don't feel as shitty anymore, it won't make you more happy, just feel less shitty.
>>29362691
It numbs your life
>>29362568
Yeah it was an acute case cause normally the voice wouldn't scare me into doing crazy stuff that would hurt myself or get someone to call the cops, it would mostly tell me harmless stuff like to read signs and interpret them with the language they created for example the letter "A" means ass and "K" would be just kay so they'd take a word like bask and point to it when I got angry and say "Ass K?" making fun of me. If I was telling someone to do something the voice would point to my friend's band shirt citizen and say "Eye eye loser" because the letters i i e, I means eye and e means loser
>>29359431
I've taken zoloft for a while.It doesn't do shit for depression,but it helped somewath with my OCD,but i could just be placebo,though.
>>29362740
Lol watch for licenseplates you will see the same numbers, the same letters. Coincidencea are everywhere and they tell the future. Ever have "radio wars" in your car?
>>29362740
That's definitely interesting, I've not heard as much about reinterpretation via fake languages, it's an interesting type of referential delusion, for sure.
I rely on Zoloft, I go nuts without it.
>>29362772
>radio wars
I'm either too stupid or young to know what that is, I used to just listen to my cd's in my car when I drove, but I don't drive anymore cause I total'd my parents car and because I'm crazy they won't let me drive anymore
>>29362875
Like you drive next to a dude. And he starts talking through YOURA radio and yu have to vie for control of the waves in order to hear your jam instead of shit like "faggot nignog tyke bike like 4"
SSRI or any other meds can't cure your mental health.
Depression is a not an issue of brain, that's issue of faith. Also some people have objective reason to be depressed.
Depression, anxiety and ADD is a fucking meme
>>29362560
OP here posting from my phone.
The psychiatrist knew I smoked weed and heavily advised to stop because I had asthma when I was like 3.
Made me suspicious like he knew THC was better than his meme Zoloft.
>>29363299
If you're depressed while smoking, why would you assume that it's better than a medication that you haven't tried yet?
It clearly doesn't fix your issues.
>>29363281
why do people take on this belief?
>>29363333
I am not depressed while smoking but I can't be fucking high all the time.
>>29363340
Psychology isnt perfect sometimes they ruin lives and minds. They also make money off of pill sales...
>>29359431
im on it currently, i feel fine, though it does reduce sex drive apparently and youll feel shit for a week at first
>>29363340
because they are normies with no mental issues
>will it make me worse?
Honest answer?
Probably.
Zoloft isnt even the best SSRI desu. It kind of makes you a zombie; okay with whatever. The best way if heard it described is "of the roller coaster of your emotions, zoloft removes both the valleys and the peaks. Everything is OK."
>>29363389
it really does do that, especially if you are on a higher dose, but for me it is better than the anxiety and depression
>>29363357
Being intoxicated isn't exactly a good way to treat mental health issues. The medication will, if it works, make it possible for you to address your issues, if as >>29359498 said, you do therapy too.
What you're arguing is like going "Well, if a heroin addict isn't depressed while he's high, then it's better than actual treatment". When in reality reliance on recreational substances to avoid mental distress is what causes addiction.
>>29363366
There's laws against psychiatrists making direct profit from sale of pills, and most governments give you extra cash for successful treatment these days, not prescriptions filled.
>>29363389
>the best SSRI
You're being dumb anon, there is no best SSRI. Some work for people, some don't, they're not one size fits all. Some people will get side effects, some won't.
>>29359431
100 mg is alot I take 20mg of citalopram
>>29359431
Is there any point in attending "therapy" and taking any sorts of meds in the likes of anti-depressants and what not.
Afterall, medicine won't give me joy nor fulfillment.
Same being that I need dear ones for support, not some lousy stranger that I will never find as a dear one casue they have a professional approach. When one I'd look for is of loving and caring nature. Perhaps one that I could call comradery, haaah..
>>29363551
They're tools, anon.
The person in charge of giving you joy and fulfillment is you. They didn't tell us about it, but that shit takes effort.
>>29363560
Not the people though, for clarification, just the meds and shit.
A therapist is the person I see to tell touchy shit I can't give out to most people. I go to vent so that I can give the people in my personal life my best, instead of my worst. They're understanding anyways, they're good people. That's why I breif over my issues to give them closure, and go into detail with somebody paid to listen.
>>29363651
And what when one doesn't have the need for unwinding, be it already fulfilled. But instead looking for direction or guidance which I'd say they cannot give, at least not sufficient. Especialy when it's hard to breakthrough oneself at times.
Wouldn't that make it completly pointless in such case?
A therapist gives you an excuse to be permanently broken
>>29363821
Why do people have such dumb fucking views about mental health? No-one goes "an oncologist gives you an excuse to die of cancer".
>>29363844
Im mentally ill and i just dont like the idea of therapy. There was a point in my life wherw it might have helped but i didnt go and now im fine
>>29363902
That's great for you, but doesn't change what I said. Same as people go into remission of cancer without seeing an oncologist doesn't mean you shouldn't see one if you have it.
Also, I don't believe you if you're saying you're diagnosed mentally ill and never did therapy, therapy is vital to finding out what the actual problems are, which is relayed to the psychiatrist.
>>29363938
Psychiatry != medicine
Fuckin goober
>>29359937
>went outside once in a while
Fuck you.
>everyone fucking stares at me
>it's like they can hear my thoughts
>every 5 seconds I check if there's something on my face or if my earphones stopped working
>I feel like a fucking circus freak
I want to kill myself every time I go outside. I'm not even fat or deformed, I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me
>>29364102
>implying psychiatrists aren't equally as qualified as any other form of specialist doctor
They have an MD anon.
Reminder that generics are NOT always equivalent to the brand name.
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2014/12/03/expose-reveals-why-we-no-longer-trust-all-generic-drugs/
Now they're importing tons of psychiatric drugs from India.
Indian drug companies have been proven to falsify the drug equivalency test results and lie to the FDA about it.
http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/500-million-penalty-ranbaxy/2013/05/14/id/504364/
>>29364129
Dont trust em as far as i can throw em. Also im a schizo and i did fine without any therapy [to the above poster
>>29364169
Your opinion doesn't constitute facts.
And once again, I don't believe for a second that you were diagnosed with anything with absolutely no attendance of therapy. It's vital to any diagnosis or treatment of chronic (or even acute, to a lesser extent) mental illnesses.
Why have we got like a 1 in 7 rate of schizophrenia in this thread anyway? Seems kind of unlikely to me that everyone here is either depressed or schizophrenic.
>>29364245
They wont give me diagnosis until i quit weed. They said i should go to therapy but it was too hard so i gave up
>>29364267
Well then don't go around calling yourself something you're not diagnosed with.
And you giving up on therapy doesn't mean it doesn't work.
Don't chuck around your shitty theories about how useless psychiatry and therapy is when you're the one who refuses to actually follow their advice.
>>29364245
Keep suck suckin pharma dick ya goober
>>29364303
Kek, care to explain the difference between THC and any of the other psycho-active substances you're shitting on, Dr dudeweed?
>>29364364
One is a drug that gets you high the other kills your soul. Whats your diagnosis? Aspergers?
>>29364470
Damn, it kills your soul? That's some great pharmacological commentary you've got there, by what function do they kill your soul, exactly?
And this is all of these medicines, right?
>>29359431
Half-sister is on that shit and she's a fucking zombie. Talks slow, very enamored with her dogs and shitty CBS dramas. Her favorite topics of discussion is facebook censorship, Christianity, and her myriad of self-inflicted medical issues.
Just smoke weed. It's better to have some sort of personality than to be a whitewashed wet paper bag.
Sertraline has turned my life around, I can function. Only side effect is its hard to cum.
>>29364521
naw nigga, alright I got off my phone.
Soul is a metaphor for your ability to empathize, create, also emotion
You see, psychiatry/therapy is evil and you only need to look at an example of someone who has been to therapy for a long time. They guard it with fervor because its their dogma, it explains why they are the way they are, to them its a part of their identity. These people are eternally broken by the system they thought would help them. They system destroys people by enabling them to be "ill".
These people will never be done with therapy, they are simply cash cows to be milked by therapist (tell me what your co pay is on that therapist you love so much)
As for diagnosis I supposedly have:
-ADHD
-Major Depression
-Schizophrenia (I have to wait 6 more months til they officially call me a schizo, because I had smoked pot)
Medications:
Zoloft
Welbutrin
Lexapro
Adderall
Concerta
Risperadol
Zyprexa (the only one I still take)
most of these medications are shit, they make you brain dead (and limp dicked)
I hate when faggots tell me that I'm not sick enough to shit post in mental illness threads
>>29364689
Soul is a meaningless fucking buzzword, and psychiatric medicines absolutely don't stop you from being able to empathise or create.
>psychiatry/therapy is evil
That's a compelling argument there.
>These people are eternally broken by the system they thought would help them. They system destroys people by enabling them to be "ill".
Says the person who's ill nearly entirely because he's refusing to actually do the shit recommended to him. But it's those darn evil psychiatrists, right?
>tell me what your co pay is on that therapist you love so much
Thanks to me living in a country where medicine isn't fucking shit, I just bulk bill all medical payments, and it's covered by public healthcare. Also, you realise that refusing to properly treat a patient in order to get more money from them is medical malpractice, right? Do you really think that in a field that absolutely doesn't struggle with getting patients, doctors are going to risk their license to practice medicine to keep some of their old ones?
>As for my diagnosis I supposedly have two extremely common and easily treated disorders, and one thing I'm not actually diagnosed with, but like to pretend I am
Fuck off. As I said, no psychiatrist would diagnose MDD without consulting with a therapist first, consulting with other medical professionals who've seen the patients present is vital to diagnosis. Being on anti-depressants doesn't mean you're diagnosed with it.
>I hate when faggots tell me that I'm not sick enough to shit post in mental illness threads
This was literally never my point, my main point was that you were a moron who likes to spout opinions on shit he has absolutely no understanding of. The fact that you're clearly selfdiagnosed with at least one illness and likely others is just secondary to that.
I don't care about what medicines you've been on, your opinions on what they do don't overrule what they're actually listed as doing by people more qualified to say than you are.
I have been officially diagnosed sad to say...
dont know why would won't believe me
why would I lie about something like that?
I hear voices all day, every day and worse.
you have no mental illnesses to speak of, not sure why you're here...
>>29364787
Actually, I'm not going to have this debate with a fucking retarded stoner who thinks he knows more than pharmacists and qualified doctors about their jobs.
You keep on doing what you're doing, and pretending it's your uncontrollable brain chemistry causing your issues, I'm not going to make myself look dumb by taking this seriously and giving it any attention.
You should submit your whole "Psychiatry is evil" theory to a medical journal though, I'm sure that it'll change the field.
>>29364824
Keep on shillin
science is god
richard dawkins is my god
do not doubt science
*teleports*
>>29364787
I just want to add, that I hate you and I think you are a goober
Do they prescribe placebos your first medical prescription? I just got prescribed zoloft for depression and anxiety but I can't tell if it's working. I heard it takes a couple weeks but I don't want to waste my fucking time on a placebo effect. I mentioned having past thoughts of suicide before but is there anyway to tell?
>>29365016
Look up the number printed on the pill online
>>29365016
No, they don't. Generally a good rule for any psych medication is give it 6 weeks before you say if it works. They take at least two weeks to start working (generally), but six weeks is the point at which, if it's not working, it's not going t work at that dosage.
Also, SSRI's aren't all the same, just the same class. So, say Zoloft didn't work, that's not to say that another may not. And SSRI's aren't the only class available.
>>29360680
go take you fucking meds you goy. I'm sure if you add another heart medication to deal with the side effects of your ant-depressants which was caused by your ADHD meds. Like the fucking weak bitch you
>>29364824
good goy good goy ;)
this isn't even a meme, you're so fucking brain dead you eat this shit up like 90% of the population.
>ANONIMOOS XD
yeah, yeah I think most people at this point understand the government is not there to help them but everyone is too scared and lazy to do anything.
>>29365471
>>29365404
Go back to /pol/, retard.
>>29365488
3 different dudes told you to wake up maybe u shud listen
>>29359431
I od'd on Zoloft one time familia good times but yeah it's pretty shitty, they gave me Zoloft at first and then almost immediately put me on abilify lmfao
>>29365709
One time a guy gave me a bag full of pills and I thought it was valium but it was zoloft.
Teeth grinding and shaking for a entire day what an awful pill
Be careful not to take to for too long OP, it can really mess you up in the long run.
I was on it for three years and I
> gained 40 pounds
> became fucked up and emotionless
> went into withdrawal when I finally stopped taking it
>>29365685
Do you really think a crowd of retards is any more credible than a single retard?
You realise psychiatrists are people as well, right? With their own set of morals and views of the field?
>>29365849
Rapists are also people; you don't see me defending them though
>>29365870
Yeah, because that's not a false equivalency at all, is it?
>>29365878
shut up you anti-semite
