Is zoloft (sertraline) actually effective or just a fucking placebo unlike xanax (alprazolam)?

Is zoloft (sertraline) actually effective or just a fucking placebo unlike xanax (alprazolam)?

Im asking for both OCD and depression

Im currently on 100 mg daily. 1.5 a month into it

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No /money

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Is your depression caused by your OCD? If so then I would say it's not going to work. Antidepressants are for people who have every reason to be happy but still feel depressed. I took them (celexa) for 3 months for my anxiety and it made no difference. They are definitely overprescribed, but they do work for people who actually need them

Its the other way around. OCD is caused by depression

I did sertraline for my anxiety a few years ago and it did help in a way by making me more desensitised which made it easier to do shit which would otherwise cause me to stress out. However I experienced some bad side effects which caused me to dump it, do I didn't use it for that long (1.5 years I think). Make of it what you will

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Anti depressants were bullshit for me. Find a woman on birth control and cum in her several times a week. Better than anti depressants if you ask me. Keeps my depression to a minimum.

Until you two break up and then you make a post on Cred Forums about how you want to end your life because she was the only thing that mattered to you

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antidepressants are poison, they gradually downregulate serotonin receptors so you will eventually return to depression but also have a chemical dependence. aprazolam will do the same to gaba receptors

I've ran through all of those medicines and nothing has helped me. I'm on 3 antidepressants right now and the only thing that makes life tolerable is klonopin and avoidance

100mg is a kids dose. i'm on 200 but I take 300. i spent last night branding myself and shaking.

Considering she is my wife I see no problem with it.

I am almost a year into sertraline and it has helped me with my anxiety and depression massively. It did take many months to take effect, and I experienced quite a few side effects, but it's still worth it. However, it does numb you emotionally which means you don't get to experience the highs or lows, but that's still preferable to social anxiety and debilitating depression. Godspeed OP, hope this helps!

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I was thinking that might be the case. There are just so many faggots on here that do what I said in my last post and it pisses me off. Sorry for assuming shit, I hate when people do that to me

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Everything I'm about to say is pure conjecture. But I think that antidepressants just deal with the symptoms of your depression and anxiety by numbing you out. I think they're good for people that are so hopeless they have no other options. I think that most people can figure out what's causing their problems and deal with that directly, rather than just take a pill for the symptoms. I think they're grossly over prescribed and doctors don't tell you the truth about them, they just give you a pamplet. The only time I think they should be prescribed is if someone is doing everything in life to be happy and yet still feel depressed

It works if you use it properly.
It's a tool, without proper correction of thoughtpatterns, they will only have a slight affect.

If you iron out any automatic negative associations you have, and stay on top of them. They will make the process twice as easy if not more than normal.

It's not a miracle pill, it doesn't make you happy out of nowhere, it just makes it easier to adjust your own mood and thoughts.

If you do nothing and expect them to do something, they won't do shit.

>getting medical advice online
>millennial american detected

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I took them for 3 months and didn't even have a slight affect. I think if you're taking them while doing other things to help your issues then they aren't really needed. I think they should be used as a last resort for the truly desperate who can't do other things to help and those who have tried everything else. I just really don't like them because I invested so much time into them and they let me down

They're serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
They make your brain reabsorb the constant flow of serotonin slower, so that more is available at all times.

It makes it easier for you to experience success on a chemical level.
The same goes for being affected by failure.

If you actually utilize the effect, you can change alot of negative thought patterns, and generally rebuild/fortify your personality.

If you have succes with readjusting on SSRI's, and you then stop taking them.
The lessons taught by being on the medication, still have a great affect afterwards.

If you take them without therapy or taking steps to change what makes you unhappy, you just become more numb than usually to what would otherwise make you depressed.

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Some people need a stronger kind of SSRI than the norm.
Also they don't click with every person in the same way.
It's largely dependant on personality and proper guidance.

But in the end, if you aren't compatible with the medication, it won't do shit.

The same is true with alot of antipsychotic medication, alot of people try out more than 3, before finding one that works for them.

Personally my SSRI's worked within a week, and with advice from my doctor, i took hold of the negativity that had become automatic within my thought patterns.

I get where you're coming from, medication isn't something that should be given to every person slightly sad, in order to numb them.
Im amazed at how few people seem to be under the impression that SSRI's are simply "happy pills".

Glad they worked for you. Thanks for taking the time to try to understand my point of view

Of course i try to understand.
If one person reads what i said, and is able to utilize it, nothing would make me happier.

It's horrible to be stuck in perpetual negativity.
I wish you the best.