In 2017, I was prescribed citalopram by my first psychiatrist. At first, it was for treating schoolwork related anxiety and helped me reduce the anxious feelings, until 3 years later. I have a tendency to taking them on and off, but been on citalopram for so long that I developed a tolerance to it. Once that happens, it does nothing to me.
In Janurary 2021 with my 2nd psychiatrist (which is more competent and also by just a few minutes away from my home), prescribed me Zoloft (Sertaline) along with the stimulant Ritalin (Methylphenidate). Ritalin worked much better in managing heavy workload anxiety than citalopram. He prescribed Sertaline not because I have depression, but rather to control intrusive thoughts (in my case, thoughts of suicide that arose without warning and when dealing with stressful situations). I felt helped me to reduce the frecuency of such thoughts, but not completly.
A couple of months ago, I've been having easy bruising of unknown origin. Later, a few weeks ago on the bathroom, I exprienced heavy "external rectal bleeding" (I do not know other words to describe it, TBH) from pushing too hard and created a fissure there. It was bright red once I saw it, which left me emotionless wondering why I bleed so hard from it... I told that to my psychiatrist along with easy bruising, and he changed it to Fluvoxamine (Luvox, and yet another SSRI). He told me that SSRIs acts like a anticoagulant, which makes someone to easily break tiny capillaries in the body (hence my easy bruising and bleeding) and to become more watery as well.
I've been feeling that I'm staring to develop a tolerance to Sertaline after 2 years (also was taking them on and off between short periods of time, which makes me that I'm not quite following the instructions, perhaps from forgetting them when I felt good enough to go through the day and when stress-free from any heavy tasks).
I can't say much about fluvoxamine since after 3 days I've having vertigo and I erroneously assumed it was the medication. Then went to my main psyhician and then discovered a red dot in my left ear canal as the source of the vertigo, and remember that I've cleaned my ears with a Q-tip cotton swab to remove the earwax and injured it while doing that.
