When Antidepressants Leave Lasting Damage: Living with Post-SSRI/SNRI Sexual Dysfunction

[Healing]

Anyone here took antidepressants and suffered from emotional blunting , brain fog, sexual dysfunction, chronic tiredness after stopping them even for months?

They said it was psychological but i discovered lot of other people are suffering from the same thing and in most cases it chronic and there is no solution !

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When Antidepressants Leave Lasting Damage: Living with Post-SSRI/SNRI Sexual Dysfunction - Our Bodies Ourselves Today

Some people who take certain types of antidepressants experience lasting sexual dysfunction for months or years after stopping the medication

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it's driving me crazy and that's the main reason i will commit suicide

 

[mlha]

Is it possible for the same effects to be caused by antipsychotics? I've tapered off taking antipsychotics, it's been a year I've had a psychosis and before that I enjoyed self-gratification, but now I feel only 10 % of arousal during masturbation and it feels like a chore. I'd say to some degree a tactile numbness is also present.

 

[Healing]

Is it possible for the same effects to be caused by antipsychotics? I've tapered off taking antipsychotics, it's been a year I've had a psychosis and before that I enjoyed self-gratification, but now I feel only 10 % of arousal during masturbation and it feels like a chore. I'd say to some degree a tactile numbness is also present.

exactly, you have PSSD, anti-psychotic does it too, numbness in genitals, no pleasure in sex or masturbation, no libido, emotional blunting, no emotions bad or good, only a single tone constant emotion

 

[mlha]

You're probably right. I suffered an even worse effect of antipsychotics and that is akathisia, that was really a torture. I'm not surprised that it affects libido and arousal.

 

[Ch92921]

I heard some consumed paxil for some years, needed 2 years for withdrawal another one 2.5 years.

 

[NeedExit]

Yes, that's why I'm here

 

[Insomniac]

I'm tired of people blaming anti depressants. Because of them, they have been progressively withdrawn. You can't even get xanax in Canada anymore.

Nembutal used to be common in sleeping pills back in the days, and so it was easy to CTB. They stopped making them because people complained.

Damn it. Self-control. If you lack it, it's not the doctor's fault. It's common knowledge that antidepressants don't fix anything and it's easy to educate yourself on the side effects. 50 years old scientific article talked about the side effects of them. And you hear most people on antidepressants talking about how bad the side effects are.

If you chose to take it regardless it's your responsibility. It's not the fault of the antidepressant (They're just legal drug).

I don't think you want to CTB because of them. You want to CTB because you ran away from your problems using antidepressants and now you want to face them all at once. And your problems were accumulating while you were high.

People are making petition to draw drugs like Xanax and other stuff off the market, based on their own irresponsibility and it's freakin annoying.

Xanax is messing with me too but I read the terms and conditions and I knew what to expect when I got into it. So I'm not gonna blame no one.

On a more compassionate note, I really hope you find a way to recover from the dammage. It's possible but it takes a lot of courage and resilience.

 

[Healing]

I'm tired of people blaming anti depressants. Because of them, they have been progressively withdrawn. You can't even get xanax in Canada anymore.

Nembutal used to be common in sleeping pills back in the days, and so it was easy to CTB. They stopped making them because people complained.

Damn it. Self-control. If you lack it, it's not the doctor's fault. It's common knowledge that antidepressants don't fix anything and it's easy to educate yourself on the side effects. 50 years old scientific article talked about the side effects of them. And you hear most people on antidepressants talking about how bad the side effects are.

If you chose to take it regardless it's your responsibility. It's not the fault of the antidepressant (They're just legal drug).

I don't think you want to CTB because of them. You want to CTB because you ran away from your problems using antidepressants and now you want to face them all at once. And your problems were accumulating while you were high.

People are making petition to draw drugs like Xanax and other stuff off the market, based on their own irresponsibility and it's freakin annoying.

Xanax is messing with me too but I read the terms and conditions and I knew what to expect when I got into it. So I'm not gonna blame no one.

On a more compassionate note, I really hope you find a way to recover from the dammage. It's possible but it takes a lot of courage and resilience.

Can you read well?

i dont have any emotions left because of Antidepressants and it was not my idea to take them i was forced to take them
life was painful before antidepressant but now it's more awful, i can't enjoy anything

stop judging and assuming

 

[Insomniac]

Can you read well?

i dont have any emotions left because of Antidepressants and it was not my idea to take them i was forced to take them
life was painful before antidepressant but now it's more awful, i can't enjoy anything

stop judging and assuming

I apologise.

but this is the first time you mention that you were forced.

anyway I don't want to invalidate your feelings. sorry about that

 

[Broadland]

Can you read well?

i dont have any emotions left because of Antidepressants and it was not my idea to take them i was forced to take them
life was painful before antidepressant but now it's more awful, i can't enjoy anything

stop judging and assuming

Same, I was forced to take SSRIs at 14 when I had no idea what long term effects they could cause. I stopped taking them once I turned 18, suffered the withdrawal effects for a few months but even 5 years later I'm nowhere back to normal.
I'm like a robot, I feel absolutely no emotions even when I really should and want to feel any. Only very rarely, when something extreme happens I get a very very dull feeling in my chest for a few seconds. I've lost most of my creativity and imagination, can barely do any complex tasks and I barely feel aroused anymore and even when I do it only feels slightly better than nothing for a few seconds to maybe a few minutes, then it's back to feeling like nothing again.
Even physical affection does nothing for me anymore.

I was pretty much told that it wasn't the medications fault, that I must have been like that before and that I was much better off being on them.
What a load of bullshit. If the child psychologist back then had chosen to believe me and didn't question me so harshly causing me to shut down, I would've eventually been able to share my issues with her and actually been able to get help for them.
Instead she thought she had me all figured out and decided to put me on pills to try to fix me.
And whenever I told them that I wasn't any better and felt like a zombie they told me to wait longer for them to take effect, and eventually increased my dose high enough that I was too numb to complain about anything anymore.

While I have other unfixable problems in my life, at least if I was still able to feel emotions, and wasn't so braindead and detached I might have decided to keep on living as there would still be meaning in life despite all of that.
But now no matter what happens, no matter how much better everything else gets, I'm too numb and detached to be able to really experience anything anymore.
I guess the only positive from this is that if things don't go as planned when I ctb, I won't really suffer as much as most people would.

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

I'm tired of people blaming anti depressants. Because of them, they have been progressively withdrawn. You can't even get xanax in Canada anymore.

Nembutal used to be common in sleeping pills back in the days, and so it was easy to CTB. They stopped making them because people complained.

Damn it. Self-control. If you lack it, it's not the doctor's fault. It's common knowledge that antidepressants don't fix anything and it's easy to educate yourself on the side effects. 50 years old scientific article talked about the side effects of them. And you hear most people on antidepressants talking about how bad the side effects are.

If you chose to take it regardless it's your responsibility. It's not the fault of the antidepressant (They're just legal drug).

I don't think you want to CTB because of them. You want to CTB because you ran away from your problems using antidepressants and now you want to face them all at once. And your problems were accumulating while you were high.

People are making petition to draw drugs like Xanax and other stuff off the market, based on their own irresponsibility and it's freakin annoying.

Xanax is messing with me too but I read the terms and conditions and I knew what to expect when I got into it. So I'm not gonna blame no one.

On a more compassionate note, I really hope you find a way to recover from the dammage. It's possible but it takes a lot of courage and resilience.

Xanax is a different beast entirely. The medical industry wants to axe benzos due to their addictive potential, regardless of the fact that these drugs are the only option for some people suffering from extreme panic attacks.

Benzodiazepine mechanism of action relies on GABA receptors as opposed to serotonergic targets. Due to the ability of alcohol and other depressants to bind to GABA Receptors (leading to serious interactions when mixed with benzos) as well as the presence of severe, sometimes fatal withdrawl syndromes after sustained, chronic use, benzos are becoming more and more restricted.

SSRIs have an entirely different mechanism of action and are seen as safer solely because they don't have the intrinsic potential to kill you the way Xanax does if you administer or with alcohol and exmpliffy the depressant effects. The side effects of these medications are ignored (even serotonin syndrome) because they can be subtle and progressively life altering rather than causing a salient presentation of danger.

I agree that we should be able to take whatever we want and have complete bodily autonomy. Yet, the medical regulatory boards believe otherwise. There has been a shift in the beurocratic literature allowing antidepressants like SSRIs/SNRIs to be prescribed for anything and everything.

Somatic pain? Antidepressants. Anxiety? Antidepressants. Ptsd? Antidepressants. Grief? Antidepressants. Unable to manage your chronic illnesses because the health services won't give you any actual treatments/painkillers? Did someone say even more antidepressants!

These drugs are cheap to manufacture and have less intrinsically fatal side effects, so they will continually be pushed onto us. Serotonergic antidepressants aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

On the contrary, most regulatory bodies/governments have a firm conviction that addictive potential trumps an individual's symptom relief, so they will continue to crackdown on benzos, opiates, etc until they are near impossible to obtain.

 

[Endoflifecomestoall]

I was on them for 6 months. The worst thing I could have done. Lowered libido and capability as well as reducing my interest in other things. Increased anxiety, that was with half a sertraline

 

[Journeytoletgo]

Antidepressants ruined my life as well, numb, detached, low libido, sexual dysfunction

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

I was on antidepressants for 25 years. At first they seem to rescue me from a depression that had lasted for several years. But the anti-depressants had a way of keeping me positive, allowing deeper, more insidious problems to fester and grow. A few days ago, for no real reason (laziness) I just stopped taking them. And strangely, I feel better. More calm. More clearheaded. I wonder what would've happened if I had stopped years ago.

 

[OldDrummer]

I used to work for a pharma company that developed one of the second generation SSRIs.

They were *NEVER* designed to be taken by a patient for a period longer than two years.

Lack of Doctor education meant that people were being left on them forever with fuck-knows what long-term consequences.