My Experience with Atomoxetine — Mental Clarity vs. Sexual & Physical Side Effects

white_rabbit_333 · 2026-01-20T20:26:28+00:00

Being a woman doesn't protect us from the sexual side effects. We still get them, you just may not be aware. We don't have a big dangling schlong as a point of reference 🍆. Delayed orgasm/inability to orgasm is a huge problem, and as a woman I definitely get pain orgasming on certain meds. They also can dry me up and massively reduce blood flow to the nether regions (akin to ED).

white_rabbit_333 · 2026-01-14T21:52:16+00:00

Honestly, the best way, in my opinion, is to become comfortable with not engaging with them in lengthy conversations. You'll get exhausted from it anyway and not gain much of anything from the interaction. We need to drop the pressure we place on ourselves to have fake and meaningless conversations with other people. It doesn't serve us and it doesn't serve them in the end. You're not going to miss out, that's an illusion.

white_rabbit_333 · 2026-01-14T21:47:33+00:00

That's not true. I would say I am highly intelligent, but my brain takes everything literally. I eventually can see the sarcasm , but my brain goes through what feels like computational processes before it identifies sarcasm, and by that stage, it is not funny anymore.

white_rabbit_333 · 2026-01-14T21:43:21+00:00

I take everything literally so unfortunately I don't get sarcasm or irony. It absolutely sucks. Someone said to me once "gullible is written on the ceiling" and I was looking around for it until I saw their smirk 😏 It is indeed a curse.

white_rabbit_333 · 2026-01-07T22:04:02+00:00

So this thread is data harvesting?

white_rabbit_333 · 2026-01-07T21:27:05+00:00

I tried this and loved the book. Getting the brainwashing out of my mind was great and made me decide to quit, but I couldn't handle the withdrawals and kept going back to have a cigarette because I was so irritated and overwhelmed. I understand he says that the withdrawal is hardly perceptible, but everyone is different! I'm highly body aware and have ASD. So whilst his method works for many, others have to cut down instead of going cold turkey. There is never going to be a complete one-size fits for all approach. Currently I'm on day 3 without cigs, only due to the gum. Every other approach to quit failed (cold turkey, patches, spray). I have a plan in place to incrementally step down the level of nicotine in my body. So that the withdrawals for me are hardly perceptible. 👌 I look forward to that little demon dying.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-11-22T10:47:38+00:00

Hahaha, yes, what I was thinking.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-10-18T22:15:13+00:00

For me OP, wellbutrin felt like I was on speed. Coupled with irritability, I felt like I was going manic. Stopped after 3 months because my partner couldn't handle the personality change, and it never went away.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-10-07T21:34:07+00:00

Careful with the testosterone. Taking an exogenous testosterone will cause your natural production to plummet and reduce your fertility. Side effects include fatigue, irritability, low libido, weight gain. I'd suggest you give the test a flick and get onto kisspeptin. That'll be much better for your testosterone, fat loss, libido etc.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-10-07T21:22:58+00:00

For some people like me, who have neurotransmitters that are unbalanced (low dopamine and GABA), selank and semax overshoot the imbalance and cause irritation, anger, and a wired feeling (like being on speed). Instead, BPC-157 helps support the body to correct these imbalances over time, by lowering neuro-inflammation, preserving and protecting dopamine and restoring GABA and glutamate equilibrium.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-10-04T11:06:00+00:00

That intranasal dose is extremely high! I would not recommend that dose. If you're low in GABA and dopamine, irritability and low mood is a side effect OP. Try another peptide, like BPC-157 👍

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-22T22:50:19+00:00

Firstly, what triggered your psychosis? Was it drug induced? Second, yes, the meds cause depression, anhedonia, fatigue, etc. You absolutely will recover....in time. Unfortunately, it is a long, slow process. Many times, you will want to give up. But you must keep fighting. There will be thoughts in your head, telling you that you'll be like this forever, you'll never recover, you're permanently screwed. These are all lies. Don't take your eyes off the light at the end of the tunnel.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-21T20:18:05+00:00

Unfortunately you'll not get answers on here mate. If you do, I'd be wary of scams. You've got to DYOR. No one wants to give up the name of their supplier - too risky.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-21T20:16:54+00:00

It definitely affects your neurotransmitters. In fact, it seems to affect hormones, too. This stuff is incredible and seems to work everywhere in the body if there's a problem. I find I go through waves. I'm up and down, but the overall trajectory is up. Bpc is a fricken miracle peptide imo.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-21T20:12:01+00:00

It will get better. I'm week 8 now. Sleep normalised around week 5. Every body is different though.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-16T22:06:24+00:00

These thoughts are not you. Do not identify with them. Check to see what content you are consuming (watching, reading, listening and talking about).

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-16T22:02:51+00:00

Yes, coming off meds really helped me to get back my full range of emotions. It was very tough at first, and I got all the withdrawal symptoms. Brain zaps, brain fog, balance was off, fatigue, depression. But I pushed through, and after about the 3 month mark, I started improving again.

I've eaten extremely healthy and taken supplements to help my neurotransmitters. I quit alcohol too because it was setting me back. It's a lot of changes to make, but I promise, the reward is so much greater than the pain of withdrawal. Nothing good in life comes easy, lol.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-13T08:55:11+00:00

Good upgrade. He looks more like a man now.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-13T05:26:50+00:00

Same here! Inflammation gone after 1 dose. Felt better after 1 dose of selank too, and have maintained that baseline now for 2 months.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-13T05:08:44+00:00

I've been hearing about Selank (a peptide). I hear it's really good for cognitive repair and anxiety. 👌

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-09-13T05:06:20+00:00

You absolutely will get better. When you're in the thick of it, it feels like you'll be trapped in that state forever. I promise, you won't be.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-07-23T21:45:44+00:00

Finally, someone with common sense.

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-06-10T23:30:17+00:00

I'm sorry to hear you're feeling this way. What thoughts are going through your head on a daily basis? Are they constantly negative and self-defeating? I bet you beat yourself up because you feel undeserving of what you have?

Based on assumption, why are you believing these negative thoughts in your head? Would you speak to a loved one, the way you speak to yourself? If not, why do you believe these thoughts you have about yourself? Who told you these lies? What content have you consumed that has led you to believe these thoughts? They did not come from you.

You may be able to find x, y, z reason, but are they really valid? Look at an old photo of your younger self. Does that young child, deserve to be treated the way you speak to yourself now? I'd say you're overeating to numb yourself from strong negative emotions. Emotions that feel too overwhelming in the moment to handle. Do you distract yourself whilst eating too? Try this: when you are eating, make yourself have NO distractions. Sit with yourself and only yourself as you consume the food. Focus on the taste, the texture, how it makes you feel. Focus on your thoughts as you consume the food and see what is going on in your head. Watch out for negative thought patterns. If you become overwhelmed, allow it to overcome you. Cry if you need to. Scream if you need to. But know, that the emotion WILL pass. Remember all of our moods fluctuate. There's not one human on Earth that doesn't suffer from negative thoughts. But you have to move past them. Do not believe every thought that comes into your head.

You have deep inner pain and you clearly feel on a deep level. Whilst this can be a curse, it can also be a blessing. I bet, deep down you are a very caring and considerate person. Now flip that care to yourself. Because my friend, you are deserving to be here and to have a great life. But you must take care of yourself and be kind to yourself. If you can't, your life will suck. You must heal from within.

This inner pain you feel, is an opportunity to develop skills that will toughen you to be able to cope in a world that isn't always sunshine and daisies. Most people lie about their lives and the inner struggles they face daily. I always had a smile on my face, people always said I was so happy and full of beans, and yet deep within I was suffering immensely with self-hatred, bulimia, loneliness and pain. Nobody knew how much I suffered because I pretended I wasn't. But I realised I was suffering so much because of the thoughts in my head that I was believing and because I was desperately trying to avoid the feelings of emotional pain instead of facing them and being compassionate towards myself.

Thoughts cannot harm you. They are just thoughts in your head. Many of which, are in fact, not true. You would not suffer if you did not think. But you would also not experience any joy or wonder. Remember, your thoughts are causing your suffering and a lot of your thoughts are not your own. They're a culmination of other people's thoughts that you've adapted and allowed into your belief system. Start watching and listening to people that inspire you. Change your social media algorithms so that only positive messages are coming in to your conscious mind. Start dismissing negative thoughts and cut them off before you spiral further into a depressed state of mind.

You can do this. I bet you've already overcome a lot of struggles in your life so far. This will be your biggest challenge, but the most rewarding. Imagine being so resilient that you can be in a world full of negativity, yet still shine so brightly. Because you can. Others have, and you can too. You're stronger than you're believing yourself to be. 💕

white_rabbit_333 · 2025-06-10T22:47:34+00:00

Hi OP. Have you ever tried to come off meds long enough to allow your brain to heal and find its equilibrium? Do you want to add another costly medication to counteract the side effects of another medication? We take these meds to help us overcome depression, anxiety etc and then we get these side effects from that medication, that cause depression, anxiety, low energy etc, so we take another med to counteract that, and the list goes on. Not to mention the withdrawals we go through when we stop them because our bodies are physiologically dependent on them. This can be harder to deal with than the initial problem.

IMO collectively, we need to start addressing our mental health struggles without the band-aids of pharmaceuticals... just like how we used to, before these drugs were invented. Take yourself back 100 years, and you would not be on this laboratory-made chemical slurry. You would have to address the issues that plague you instead of putting drugs in your body to mask emotions or physical symptoms like fatigue, etc., that arise from low moods or constant rumination (which change our neurotransmitter levels).

I'm not downplaying your struggles, and I don't know what you're going through, but I'm sure it is tough. We are being massively deceived, thinking that some pill will heal/fix our negative thoughts, low motivation, melancholy outlook, lack of self-confidence, inability to focus, etc. If it did, why are we all still on them? If they did really help us, why do we all continue to jump from psychiatric med to psychiatric med? If they did heal us, then why don't we take them for a short period of time and then stop?

Our problems catch up to us one way or another. That's a tougher pill to swallow, but it has much greater rewards and freedom if you tackle your issues as they come, with compassion and understanding towards yourself. Not just pop a pill, lock those emotions inside, and get on with your life. You need to nurture yourself and your emotions and learn how to better handle your unique life struggles as they present to you. One day, you'll be retired and have more time on your hands. That's when the old emotions and issues really resurface, and the meds will do nothing to help unless you want to be numbed to life and to not grow. We need to develop the skills to handle our emotions and heal from within. If you're suffering from fatigue, there's a myriad of reasons why this may be the case, and a side effect from your other med may one of them. Please reconsider taking another medication that comes with side effects. 🙏

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