I was on an SSRI called Sertraline for over a decade, all while I was under the age of 19. I identified as "aroace" (asexual and incapable of love) from 12 to 18, and still have very little sensation in my genitals because of what Sertraline did to me. This post checks out.

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[–]jet199 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know some SSRIs make trans males detransition because you can't really enjoy a fetish without a sex drive.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

SSRI's are fucking poison. I was put on them along with adhd stimulants at 7 years old. This was in the early 90's when it was all the rage.

I do find that these drugs have a pronounced depressive effect on libido. Luckily I have not experienced that particular effect to that level of severity on zoloft, but I have had many other very unpleasant side effects as you can imagine.

I think the worst part about these drugs is how incredibly difficult they are to get off of, and as you say some of the side effects and withdrawal effects can last for months, years, or even seemingly become permanent.

I am currently in the process of tapering down my SSRI, and it is brutal. How long have you been completely off the sauce, and did you cold turkey or withdraw slowly? Curious about your experiences with getting off this poison after years of use.

Anyways man, thanks for posting about this, many people are seriously harmed by these things. I wish more people were aware of the potential harms of this class of drugs. They are not nearly as safe and consequence free as advertised.

[–]LarrySwinger2 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don't figure out how to get off them by yourself. Do it under the guidance of your doctor. Yes, doctors got you on them in the first place, but they can help you get off them as well.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yessir, doin it with the doc's supervision, these drugs are no joke to get off.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay. For a moment it sounded like you were trying it by yourself. I've seen that go wrong with people near me, hence my concern.

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

did you cold turkey or withdraw slowly?

Withdrew over the course of 10 weeks.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was on multiple antidepressants decades ago, I thought they just didn't work on me, then I started reading the actual studies. It's one of the reasons I didn't want to work in the pharmaceutical industry anymore. I couldn't give people those pills knowing they were bad.

I don't know know how everyone didn't have a problem with these things. The studies were tiny. Results were self reported. They don't look great to begin with, but then later it comes out these were cherry picked studies. A lot of studies showed no benefit.

And if you try to say anything they brand you a whacko. This isn't new. We have known these drugs suck for two decades. We know the chemical imbalance theory is bullshit. And yet they won't go away.

[–]CleverFoolOfEarth[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's either corrupt doctors looking for money, a control conspiracy (that shit is like a sledgehammer to all the shit that makes ya a functional person and not just a functional cog in the globohomo machine), or a depopulation conspiracy (rarely dangerous, just does what I already said it does, it's invisible dysgenics, mood disorders like anxiety and depression are suffered by an outsize proportion of high-IQ people), take your pick.

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Oh shit man, I had no idea. I don't know anyone those drugs helped, but they sure fucked up a lot of us.

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the future there will be millions of adults with undeveloped sex organs from puberty blockers.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Once I went to the doc because of the extreme exhaustion, which was in fact caused by a massive mercury poisoning, but I only figured that out about 20 years later.

The doc prescribed me an antidepressant. I don't know why, I wasn't depressed, I was EXHAUSTED. It's a different thing, isn't it? I think it was Zoloft, or something else. It wasn't Prozac.

So I took half a pill and it made me want to murder people, to have blood running in the streets around me. I am a very peace-loving and kind individual, normally. I even became a bodybuilder because violence is not in my nature.

But this... Made me feel like a bloothirsty fucking monster.

Never again. I am absolutely doubtful of anything coming off the hellish chemical warfare plants of the pharmaceutical industry.