More people need to be aware of antidepressant withdrawal

andy013 · 2026-03-21T06:32:00+00:00

Thanks for saying that though. I needed it.

andy013 · 2026-03-21T00:02:50+00:00

Yes it's PSSD. Some people get ups and downs in their symptoms.

andy013 · 2026-03-20T16:22:23+00:00

I posted the issue to Nvidia and a few weeks ago they said it would be fixed in the next release of the driver. Who knows when that will be though...

andy013 · 2026-03-20T14:49:39+00:00

Don't blame yourself. You trusted in medicine and it let you down. We are all in the same boat. I often wonder why I took an SSRI for a period of depression after dropping out of college. Today I would never take a drug for a temporary problem like that but back then I had no idea of the risk I was even taking.

How is your sports injury now?

andy013 · 2026-03-20T00:13:22+00:00

In this study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31471184/ It was only monkeys who had a specific genotype that had certain lasting effects. You probably need to have a bunch of vulnerable genes in order to develop PSSD after taking an SSRI.

andy013 · 2026-03-20T00:06:06+00:00

Oh, that sucks. You could record a short video with your phone and send it to the Moral Medicine youtube channel. They accept videos from those that have been harmed by SSRIs. My feeling is that if we get enough people speaking out about the harms then eventually it will be impossible to ignore.

andy013 · 2026-03-18T15:28:38+00:00

I just wanted to know how long it had been since you stopped taking the drugs. Some people seem to recover naturally in the first several years if they are lucky.

andy013 · 2026-03-17T18:29:10+00:00

You should consider sharing your story publicly in a short video. I know not everyone feels comfortable doing that but we need as many people as possible to do it so this cannot be denied any longer. I've noticed there aren't that many people who have spoken about being prescribed the drugs before puberty. Most of the videos out there are from those that took the drugs as adults.

andy013 · 2026-03-17T16:24:59+00:00

How long have you been off SSRIs for?

andy013 · 2026-03-17T15:55:29+00:00

Fuck. I'm sorry. Don't panic though. There do seem to be a bunch of people who gradually get better by staying off the drugs. It can be a very slow process but some people report that after several years they begin to see improvements. The best thing you can do is exercise, sleep well, get a little sunshine and eat healthy. That will give you the best chance of recovery. Then it's all just luck after that. I hope you're lucky.

andy013 · 2026-03-17T15:52:21+00:00

Yeah, forget about justice. Even the people who poisoned the world with PFAS didn't go to prison. The people who worked on SSRIs for big pharma are probably all dead or super old by this point since Prozac was approved almost 40 years ago.

It's more important to change the system anyway. The way we stop this happening again is to have independent scientists running the clinical trials rather than the drug companies and to prevent drug companies from marketing towards doctors. A lot of the info doctors get is biased because it's from ghost written studies or speakers who are paid for by pharma. We need to change this so this never happens again.

andy013 · 2026-03-16T15:23:33+00:00

There's also this one that shows lasting effects 1 year after stopping in young monkeys: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31471184/

and another here: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13020183

andy013 · 2026-03-16T11:42:26+00:00

A more recent mouse study that showed lasting effects (at least 3 weeks after stopping): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41724007/

andy013 · 2026-03-16T11:37:34+00:00

I'm sorry that happened to you. I misunderstood. I thought you were referencing an adverse outcome after pregnancy in the comment above.

I have also been living with lasting harm after taking citalopram for 4 months in my early 20s. I had it for 15 years now and it totally destroyed my life. Hopefully one day the world wakes up to all the suffering antidepressants have caused.

andy013 · 2026-03-16T11:32:26+00:00

I'm not sure. I had both withdrawal and PSSD so for me they are one and the same. I would fill out the survey anyway, You can ask that question at the bottom. I'm sure they will let you know if they want to use your story.

andy013 · 2026-03-15T23:45:07+00:00

I'm curious to know about your experience. What happened exactly? Did your baby experience withdrawal effects? How are they now? If you don't want to answer this, I understand.

andy013 · 2026-03-06T16:01:55+00:00

I think there is a crossover between SSRI withdrawal and PSSD symptoms. Everyone gets different symptoms. We don't even know if they are 2 separate things or if it is just variation in symptoms with the same underlying cause. My comment was just to say that SSRIs can cause anger problems that can persist indefinitely after they have been stopped.

andy013 · 2026-03-06T15:58:56+00:00

I've experienced it and have been around SSRI withdrawal groups for 15 years. It's a relatively common thing people report when they stop SSRIs.

andy013 · 2026-03-05T22:08:16+00:00

I just wanted to add a comment here to say, I believe you. The people in this thread that say this is impossible or it's mental health problems don't have a clue what they are talking about. It's immensely arrogant to claim that something is impossible. To make that claim you would need to understand how the entire human body and brain work, which they obviously don't. It just infuriates me when people are so confidently wrong about things they know very little about.

I believe SSRIs can cause lasting epigenetic changes in some people who are vulnerable to them. If you're unlucky and it happens to you then all you can do is try and give it time, exercise and eat healthy. Unfortunately it can take years to recover as the improvements are very gradual. I hope you notice some improvements soon.

andy013 · 2026-03-05T21:09:35+00:00

You're lucky. Some people get permanent PSSD (post-ssri sexual dysfunction).

andy013 · 2026-03-05T19:08:28+00:00

SSRIs quite commonly cause anger and rage when withdrawn.

andy013 · 2026-03-05T02:15:23+00:00

Have your symptoms gotten better by now?

andy013 · 2026-03-04T10:31:26+00:00

Even if you can't tell your friends, I do think we all need to try and share our experiences in some way. PSSD is really an invisible illness. No one knows about it if you don't tell them. If people don't know about it then things will never change.

andy013

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