I've been tapering off Prozac for the past few months (originally from 60mg then down to 40mg, now currently on 20mg). I've been pretty happy with the results thus far~
I reached the point where they weren't doing anything good for my brain anymore at that high of a dosage (like completely decimating my libido). I've worked a lot on myself and have successfully adjusted to living on my own/far away from my previous toxic and abusive environment for a little over five years now.
Feels good, man.
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It turns out that the common soil bacterium M. vaccae acts like an antidepressant, boosting the levels of happy hormones, serotonin and norepinephrine, in humans and mammals. It also reduces stress.
"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans
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BDNF Quickly Understood
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, is a nerve growth protein (neurotrophin) crucial to the development and maintenance of the human brain. When we explore and learn, BDNF is at work, restructuring the brain, growing new dendrite branches (Horch & Katz, 2002), and in turn, these activities themselves promote BDNF expression, enhancing mood and subsequent learning.
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Living from BL drama to BL drama like
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Spoke with Dr W and she gave the okay to taper off the Wellbutrin, so that’s good. She’s concerned about doing it now since she is going on vacation for two weeks, the same two weeks T will be away, in case my mood drops. But, I told her I can stay at the 200mg until she returns and then go off it completely.
My mood has dipped somewhat, but also just started my period which always wreaks havoc. She’s thinking Pristiq will be the next one to try (based on my genetic test). But she wants to wait 3 months before I start anything new to see if my hair improves. That way we will know if was actually the Wellbutrin. Which I agree with her.
Little concerned about not being on an antidepressant for 3 months. I’m taking Remeron, but we know already that does nothing except help me sleep. So hopefully my mood doesn’t completely crash. Just in time for winter.
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Hi, I had no idea about this and had a really fucked up go of it today. The flu is bad right now and we’re all depressed as fuck so hopefully this helps someone else.
🖤Be careful with your medications. 🖤
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Hard to the touch
An epiphany that revealed to my heart the darkness from the arts
I needed help,
I went to church, ended up in a hospital ward,
Amber skies
Coward skies, they cry,
The cemetery breeze in the wind, the delicacy of a grave,
Sear sadness and sore eyes
But at the end, we are just beautiful people with beautiful problems,
With beautiful calamitous down-turned eyes
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I know this isn't my usual meme page stuff, but
I'm on withdrawal from Lexapro
Lexapro (escitalopram)is an antidepressant antianxiety medication I was prescribed by a doctor. I am off it and I can't describe how it feels with words
So I tried to explain how I feel in an image
Here is the image
I feel like I'm losing my mind
Like everything I do is masking, like there's a monster that takes control of my face
I'm forgetting basic words, I got lost on my way to school today taking the same route I've taken for two years
I feel like the objects I focus on are still and sunken, while the world spins recklessly in all directions in my periphery.
Sometimes I can hardly stand, I feel like a stranger in my own body, I lose track of how to breathe
This is a prescription I was given by a doctor, who said it would help
I was not offered affordable options for therapy
Despite asking repeatedly
I was given lexapro
Which I dutifully took
It took away my ability to feel joy
Where I used to have exuberant, beautiful, ecstatic excitement every day, about so much
It took it away from me
Periods of sadness were strong too, but they were fleeting and manageable. Lexapro leveled both. Sadness seemed weaker but more present, and my happiness so delicate and fleeting
So i tapered
Went down from 10mg to 5 for a month
Then I ran out
I feel flashes of disorientation and panic all the time now
I don't know who I am
There are a lot of antidepressants and antianxiety medications out there
I think they can be so helpful for some people
But my doctor gave me this one
With some of the worst withdrawal affects of any of them
And I tapered per medical advice
And I still feel like this
Don't take Lexapro
And wish me luck
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