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THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS. I have taken loads of different SSRIs and I will continue to shit on them from experience. They are still massively overprescribed. If you say you want to get off them doctors will tell you to try a different one. You cannot stop taking them easily without harmful side-effects. And if you want to kill yourself, and you ask for help, and what you get doesn't help, it might not need to actually cause more suicidal ideation to achieve the same effect.
ECT can fry your memory and cognition long term!
pills have side effects that are more temporary goddamn id never do ECT and it shouldn't be used lightly
Good post. I’m happy you’ve found something that’s helping you.
I think this is a great message to put here. As you say society sucks and if it sucked less maybe fewer people would be depressed, but that observation helps not at all for a person who is depressed today and needs help. If anti-depressants are what helps someone, nobody deserves to feel any shame for taking them. I’m really glad you’ve found a solution that works for you, and I’m glad you’re here.
It's good you found something that works for you but don't conflate stigmatizing needing medication with what you are far more likely to see online, which is people who have experience with SSRIs rightly pointing out that they are bad medicine (for them). Their benefits have been vastly overstated and their drawbacks largely ignored for as long as I've been alive and they are consequently often forced on neurodivergent children, as they were for close family of mine. Anger at that, and mistrust of medicine that has made you ill, is natural and should be allowed to be expressed
You probably know and don't want to hear this but for the benefit of readers:
SSRIs commonly present new and dramatic side effects when you stop taking them after they have built up in your system. Suicidal ideation is one of these, and is often reportedly worse during the period of time where the meds are leaving your body than it was before you took them or after the few weeks it takes to reajust. So its not uncommon that people experience 'wanting to kill myself when I stop taking them', but that might be a side effect of the meds rather than 'you without the meds' if that makes sense. Not you specifically but generally.
