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anti depressant talk
| Nope. Antidepressants worked wonders for me.
| They have about a 50% success rate and the effects are delayed by I wanna say 1 month even if they're effective. Personally I recommend CBT from a skilled therapist, if that suitable for you. Same success rate but it's a permanent treatment instead of pills for the rest of your life.
ECT is also fairly effective but requires a "recharge" every so often. Also if you get bad doctors who don't know how to do their job it can fuck you up.
| >>337125
same
I just stopped anti depressants after trying like 7 different brands.
Then I changed my surroundings, met new people and started smoking weed. Then I stopped with anti depressants and sleep meds.
And it worked a whole better, without feeling like something about your personality is missing/there is a hole in your brain/you act as if you are mentally retarded and always grin as if you'd be high/stopping it and realising you weren't yourself on the meds.
| >>337205 I stopped after four brands, and five quack doctors. Frankly, the impossible feeling of sitting in a chair in the back of my mind wasn't what made me stop taking antidepressants, because that almost "helped", but those doctors were sick and just made me feel like I can't trust any psychiatrist in the world and on a lower level cbt therapists because they're all fucking crooks lol. I guess it's a consequence of low quality care, but maybe that means pills aren't 4 the poor.
| >>337635
Well, the ideal should be to take antidepressants while doing any sort of therapy. Antidepressants by themselves are useless, they don't cure anything, just numb most bad vibes and then you can work on your weaknesses. CBT works, but only if put effort and dedication into solving your issues.
| There are many trash therapsits, so if you have therapy, you really need to be lucky to get a good
| >>337785
That is also true, but you could say the same of any type of doctor as well. I've met many terrible doctors before. I guess you could say that you need to choose with care to who you entrust your health to.
| Antidepressants with ANYTHING at this point in science, only numb most bad vibes. CBT is just someone trying to make someone realize the only person who can tell themselves to stop telling themselves to kill themselves is the person with those thoughts themselves. That's why after a therapist teaches you that you can control your thoughts they're pretty much useless for your depression. When you talk to someone about your problems it's just so your words are reabsorbed by you.
| Yo. ECT. It's a thing and it works... usually. When it doesn't ruin your brain.
| Electro Convulsive Therapy.
| yeesh
| ;)
| I've read about ECT and it seems to be like a factory reset tbh..
But idk about the rest of the world but in Germany you have to be under narkosis to do it.
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| well I'm about to start paroxetine treatment tomorrow and honestly i need encouragement. I'm a bit afraid since i tried fluoxetine two years ago and while it "worked" it made me feel like i wasn't myself anymore, and even years after lesving treatment i still feel heavily dissociated at times.
but yeah, this week will be paroxetine week. anyone can relate?