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Re: Can SSRIs dampen drive / ambition?

Posted by bleauberry on December 17, 2018, at 14:20:50

In reply to Can SSRIs dampen drive / ambition?, posted by Martinchen978 on December 10, 2018, at 19:35:19

Apathy is maybe the greatest side effect of antidepressants, along with sexual difficulties. That's because the flood of serotonin or norepinephrine is un-natural and the body's genetic commands try to deal with it however they can - which ends up being serotonin and norepinephrine being sucked up into dopamine reuptake pumps instead of their own pumps, which are blocked. Dopamine is excitatory and stimulating, serotonin is calming. So you don't want serotonin going into the dopamine system but that is what happens.

Often times doctors mistake the apathy as a component of the ongoing depression.

Me, for example, after being on Paxil for a year, I took the multiple choice depression questionnaire. I scored well on almost all of the categories except for the "interest in hobbies" and similar questions - I was emotionally numb, anesthetized in the brain. Flooded with serotonin.

In my case the doctor blew that off and nothing. He was happy I scored well overall. What he failed to realize is that apathy by itself is a psychiatric condition that is not acceptable. It is treatable. So any doctor willing to accept apathy as a fair trade-off for depression is wrong.

There are 3 ways I know of to deal with it. 1.Try a different one - my experience is that Prozac is the least offensive in terms of apathy and sex. 2.Add a dopamine agent to it, either Ritalin, Adderall or Modafinil. 3.Engage in other strategies besides prescription antidepressants. There are other strategies that work as well or better. The Western world will try to sell you on the idea that only your doctor's prescription can help depression and that his a myth.

I totally cured my 20 years of treatment resistant depression/bipolar/schizo with antibiotics, as just one real life example. This, after trying every psych drug on the market for years and years.

Apathy is part of the game. You either have to accept it as a cost of doing business, or manage it as best you can, or refuse to go down that road.

Honestly I thought my long-standing apathy from meds was more crippling to quality of life than the original disease was. Life is extremely difficult when you have no interest in anything.


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