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I mean, yeah, obviously these ******** can treat generalized anxiety disorder BECAUSE YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF ******** NOWHERE mentally when you take the ******** things. I still get damned a** panic attacks on the highest doses, and some smart a** doc asked me to try zoloft. HAHAHAHAHA.A.. what a ******** idiot. I just told her I get panic attacks and she thinks ******** with my dopamine and norepinephrine is gonna help? RIGHT. I'll be going 2068086x1320508508 miles a minute on that crap. In fact, zoloft is probably just like lexapro with six cups of coffee. That's right, in order to even halfway function I had to overload almost to the point of sickness on COFFEE. but of course of somethings wrong, we have to have our serotonin ******** with even when it doesn't need to be!! It's crap, and I think that's all anti depressant DRUGS are, are crap.My reasons:

-SSRIS, which most docs are convinced isnt true, are ACTUALLY ONE OF THE MOST ADDICTIVE DRUGS IN EXISTANCE. they're right up there with benzos and other s**t, and addiction isnt even the right word for the physical dependance you get on them. You can't stop these ******** cold, try coming off of benzos, opiates, and then an anti depressant. The withdrawl for the anti depressant is the worst thing you will ever experience!! EVER!!
-Doctors OVERLY prescribe these things becaus they get commision for handing out these meds(think: the patents on the other drugs ran out, so they gotta hurry up and make money on the brand name anti depressants while they still can!!!!) when other meds could sometimes better treat certain disorders.
-ALL of them ******** with your libido.
-More often than not, especially the ones they give for anxiety disorders, make you a fat a**.
-They make you act weird. Like lets say you're picky. Then you'll begin to like things you'd ordinarily HATE.
-When you're off the meds, you realize what a ******** idiot you were on them.
-YOU HAVE NO EMOTIONS ON THEM. NONE. YOU ARE NO LONGER HUMAN. YOU ARE #209095 ROBOT.
-yes, they make you lazy. they make you generally apathetic and want to do nothing but sleep all the time. I mean, thanks, but no thanks. I DO GIVE A DAMN, AND I WANT TO GET UP TO GO OUTSIDE TODAY!!
-The sleepiness doesn't wear off with more sleep. In fact, it just gets worse the longer you're on the meds until you eventually are sick with serotonin syndrome.
-As opposed to other drugs(benzos, benedryl), which are quicker acting, put your a** to bed and you wake up the next morning feeing REFRESHED instead of like a 100ton load of bricks.
-If you're a creative person, you're in for one big ******** personality change. GET READY TO SCRIBBLE!! You won't be doing anymore of that fancy schmancy artwork on this s**t.
-I have found that personally on these drugs everything is blurry, my head is in a fog and I cannot concentrate for jack s**t.
-THEY GAVE ME MEMORY LOSS.
-When I tried lexapro, my anxiety got WORSE, I got chest pains, I got all of the above side effects, I fell back in college, I became reckless and wanted to do crazy things. I also got really depressed and suicidal FROM TAKING THEM. NOT COOL.
-I generally lose my inhibitions on anti depressant drugs, which isn't good when I'm shopping. HELLO, FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT.
-I generally am a stupid a** on them and do really stupid and daring things without realizing the consequences.

WITHOUT THEM, I feel all new. I feel better than I did before when I took em, but it subsides once the withdrawl is over. Ordinarily I don't act crazy like I described above. What I kind of described above is an example of anti depressant drugs making me act bipolars when I'm not. Normally I'm just anxious and phobic These doctors won't quit giving me drugs that alter my serotonin levels and I think they should go to hell for the impairment they have caused me in that time frame!!

There's probably about 100000 more shitty side effects everyone else gets from this s**t so if you took an anti depressant and it sucked let's hear about it!! If you were misdiagnosed and put on one lets hear about it!! And if you were given this crap for an off label use and it seemed to make you worse lets hear about it!! This is a rant and a rave, and I want to BRING IT ON against this crap.

If you wanna preach how good these drugs are, this probably isnt the right place to be, but you can go ahead and talk about how wondeful and dreamy they made you feel because you weren't getting your regular reality check in, kay? Also, I'm probably going to get a s**t load of arguements, but this is what its all about, and I'll leave it to others to defend their stances. I'm just bringing it up because I do'nt have time on the computer to continue ranting about it hence why this is so long. Also, I have a disclaimer about using these drugs in depression. It's the ONLY friggin thing they should be prescribed for. I'm saying it again below.

Disclaimer: this is mostly a rant about prescribing anti depressant drugs for off-label uses. anti depressant drugs should ONLY be taken for people with MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER and for generalized anxiety disorder ONLY if depression is present!! also, I guess taking them for OCD is ok too. But I think they are over prescribed for other disorders.