How Prozac Turned Depression Medication into a Cultural Phenomenon | Retro Report
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- Опубликовано: 28 дек 2015
- When Prozac was introduced in 1988, the green-and-cream pill to treat depression launched a cultural revolution that continues to echo. Subscribe to our newsletter for the history behind the headlines: www.retroreport.org/newsletters/
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I've been on Prozac since it came out on the market. Still a child. It's saved my life. It stopped my anxiety; panic attacks and anorexia. This drug truly saved my life! ☺💊
Jane the Canadian me so hopeful to read
I'm calling my psychiatrist in the morning because my current Celexa (for depression and chronic pain) doesn't do shite, although I've asked her a few times and the answer has been "no" each time.
Saved my life as well!
@@karenbrown4524 it's very difficult to stop taking because the secondary metabolites have a 25 day half life.
How does affect ur organs like your liver etc have u had any problems since you’ve taken this for more than 20 years.
bruh it aint a trend. i am taking this because my mental health is through the floor
It is a trend. Doctors prescribe SSRIs and SNRIs way too often.
@@HyperRefined that's why therapy PLUS meds are part of the treatment. Therapy being the main one. They'll take you off the meds if you don't need them.
@@Lou-ni9bp people with permanent disabilities need meds , people who don't have permanent disabilities don't need meds it's that simple ,
@@geekedmaxx it's not but ok?? Not all mental illness' are lifelong, nor does a person require meds 100% of the time, yet they may have it lifelong
@@Lou-ni9bp never said all of them are lifelong , but some of them are and even depression can be lifelong to , it just depends on the type of depression you have , are you gonna tell a person with schizophrenia that there condition isn't lifelong stupid ? And they don't need meds ? Yea good luck with that
Prozac may not be appropriate for everyone, however it helped me enormously.
Me too!!👏👏👏👏👍
That's wonderful. 🙂
Same here, it's the only drug that's helped me.
Same. It gave me back my ability to function and gave me a chance at life.
helps my OCD a lot
Prozac literally took me out of a 10 year long depression. I owe everything to it.
@Hhj Jj I’ve been on it for about 2 years
@@sloanesteen8472 Will you get excited?
Prozac took my near crippling anxiety almost completely away. I couldn’t get out of bed, obsessively afraid of dying and panic attacks. I would rather have eaten a bullet. It was horrible. All of it began after a traumatic dental procedure.
I have taken it for nearly 10 years. It turned my life around.
Hey from a fellow prozac user in Alabama. I took Effexor for 13 years. Didn't really help. Prozac is way better.
this is so hopeful to read. ive been suffering from panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder for almost a year now. I have been on zoloft lexapro abilify and multiple sedatives(not benzos) Now I am trying to get on prozac because it saved my mom from her panic disorder, and xanax for emergencies.
Can I ask what happened to you at the dentist?
@@extra_ice_girl
I guess we'll never know. : (
@@karenbrown4524 Ehhh maybe she hasn't seen my comment, maybe she wants to keep the details private. The dentist can be a scary place.
prozac, almost immediately, ruined my life more. it took away my appetite, which i loved because i was just in the early stages of my eating disorder. i also received all of the side effects, which was not ideal. i'm glad it works for many other people; but if this drug isn't working for you, make sure to tell your doctor because it gets too intense
Sameee
I gained somuch weight because I no longer cared about anything and ate to try and feel anything at all
Same 100% an I still have side affects from it; Also it completely depleted all of my “happy brain chemicals”.
Yeah my vision is super blurry I’m shaking constantly and I feel like I’m going to drop everything that’s in my hands I just don’t like it but my sister said it’ll eventually get better after 6 weeks
Thanks for posting this. I have been prescribed this med and I am VERY skeptical about taking it. I think it's going to go into the garbage can.
Im currently on Prozac but I never new it was this popular.
Me too and some of these comments to me are just like what???
Did it ruin ur sex drive?
me too, but the generic version of it.
Prozac is the Britney Spears of legal drugs!
Yeah it's because depression is just a fad, it's not like Schizophrenia which is a real mental illness
I take Prozac and I enjoy it. It helps me, the only side effects I hate is the whole sleepiness and slumptness of it
I drink coffee
I snort prozac
@@hannahbabel8464 I was dared to once
When I took it, I couldn't sleep at all
I've been using fluoxetine since last year, to fight against depression and a eating disorder, it has helped me so much, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that medicine, it changed my life and right now I'm recovering from years and years of being depressed.
I just realized fluoxitine is Prozac saw both names on the bottle at like 1 min and I've been on it most my childhood
Its called fluctine in my country
Yeah fluoxetine is the generic version but pretty much the same. Fluoxetine has more options in how it comes tthough. I take the liquid form of fluoxetine.
@@mtshyna cendjksdsk the tablet version is so much easier
@@mtshyna omg shit I meant capsule*, the tablets are horrific
I just saw it too
I can testify that Prozac in combination with other medication has greatly improved my quality of life.
What other med do u take in combination? I feel like I need an adjunctive med as well but it sucks when U have to dabble with all these different meds to find the right combination ☹️
You are a junkie and your brain has been fried. Save yourself before it's too late.
combine with meth
My Doc prescribed me symbyax which is the combination of fluoxetine and olenzadapine. I’m on day 11, I really want to know how long does it take for you to feel it’s effects.
@T.Y.G GAD I'm feeling pretty good with symbyax.
I almost killed myself on this drug. definitely not for everyone but it has helped people
How did it happen, my psychologist prescribed me this but I’m too scared to take it to treat my anxiety and severe depression.
Mostly because of what people say about it giving suicidal thoughts and having dependence on it.
Lol does it work?
Well yes, but actually no.
dgonz gonzales wym?
Top Dawg It’s unlikely for severe side effects however it can cause headaches and nausea
Takuma Mcdade I had 30 side effects and a lot of them were severe, had to go to urgent care and the emergency room, took it back in May 25th, took 2 weeks to get better but on the 13th of this month I had a panic attack where I lost control of my body while standing and fell to the ground, it was pretty bad. Never gonna take another one of these kinds of drugs again. All I took was 10mg.
I took 8 different antidepressants and prozac 3 times. I am 6 weeks off antidepressants after 10 years and I am still having withdrawal symptoms. Be careful. Meds can't heal trauma.
... but all drugs cause withdrawal symptoms when on them for that long. You're suppose to taper off of it to reduce withdrawal. Like yeah, therapy is suppose to be the main treatment but what does withdrawal have to do with this lol
Withdrawal can last indefinitely, look up akathisia too, you can take one pill and have a long term reaction. Akathisia is a main factor behind suicides and homicides induced by meds and its been covered up
@@allseeinglies7091 Boo hoo no one cares, all drugs can potentially make you sick. Fucking aspirin and cough drops can kill you if your body can't adjust. It's not like its a conspiracy that we weren't meant to take drugs XD and that hasn't been covered up, most drugs list severe aggression or suicidal thoughts on them because companies don't want to be sued. Hell my meds even list it on the packaging that you're increased risk for suicides.
Luca D
If ur taking for 10 years!!!! That’s a long time then the symptoms will take time too clear off ur body haha
This.
It just happened to be the first SSRI to market in north America.
Prozac made me crazy. Turns out I had undiagnosed autism and adhd…but since I’m a female, any problems immediately had an antidepressant thrown at them. I’m finally correctly diagnosed and on a good med regimen that does not include any ssri.
Being female has nothing to do with it, ADHD doesn't exist
Fluoxetine completely took away my appetite while I was taking it, and it was part of the long line of psychiatric meds that left me with tardive dyskinesia.
Well that's why you don't take these SSRIs for long periods of time. Do you still have TD after weening of the ADs? Also I heard there are medications to deal with TD in the states now
Vitas Zukowski
I’m sorry. TD doesn’t have to be permanent. It may fade with time.
It actually made me gain weight which was a good thing because I wasn't eating as a result of OCD, the issue is that I gained a little too much weight lol
@@dicksdrugsanddebutantes9305 It make me hungry 24/7
I got tremor. I’m taking less now and my tremor has gone away.
This medication has helped me so much!!! I had bad depression, angry outbursts, and severe aniexty. I no longer have depression and havent had any anger outbursts since taking it. I did have to increase the dose to help my with anixety. For the first time in my whole life I spoke up in my college class. This is a miracle drug. I have taken lexapro and paxil and nothing comapres to prozax.
Are you planning to be on it lifelong or is there some sort of taper procedure?
Thanks 🙏🏼 for the information. I have depression and angry outbursts I will hopefully take it.
Did it cause you to gain weight ?
I've been depressed since my early teens but was very resistant to medication until about ten years ago. My doctor prescribed the lowest dose of Prozac and I've been on it ever since. For me, it's been a game changer.
It works for me ! No side effects ...not for everybody like any other medication
I made the mistake of not taking my medication. I’m starting to use it again regularly, which I should have been doing. I was much happier, friendly, chill, and so caring. Once I got off of it I was very angry and negative. I hope I continue taking this and not skipping my meds. This medicine does really help tho.
Prozac helped my panic attack disorder . I have a serotonin imbalance. They don’t know if I make too much or too little but Prozac helped tremendously. No more non triggering panic attacks 3 times a day for no reason. I only have them when I am extremely angry or have a reason to have one like a extremely stressful situation. Which is durable. Prozac withdrawal sucked but it worked .
My mom begged for me to be put on Prozac. I was 9, I cringe every time I hear the name. I knew I was being over medicated, but she really thought she was helping. It sucked, it made me tired, and that made her convinced that I was depressed, and then I’d reach a breaking point, lash out, and she’d think that was progress to a healthier life. I hated every minute.
Dang I'm sorry
OMG who on earth puts a 9 year old on antidepressants! That is heartbreaking within itself.. did your mom ever just talk to u? Hold u🥺? Comfort u? Read bedtime stories to u? Do activities with u to stimulate your mind?? Maybe just have u write down little notes to her if u didn’t feel comfortable speaking directly to her? Idk just anything but meds for a kid.. that hurts me so bad to think about that.. I hope you are feeling better now and I’m sorry that you were so sad as a child 🥺💔☹️
Same
@@rosegold973 8 years plus can take it. Check the bottle or do the research online. It is safe for children.
I'm one of the people that had SEVERE ADVERSE reactions to prozac. Within a half hour of taking the pill, I had a HORRIFIC episode of my brain going crazy and instantly trying to kill me (I had to fight my own body from clawing myself and trying to kill myself to end the madness). The horror of that episode can't be adequately put into words, and sadly I've had this same adverse reaction to three other drugs, which has left me with PTSD. Prozac made my life a billion times worse.
When I told my psychiatrist that this drug made me want to kill myself, that I had to fight my body from running to the kitchen and grabbing a butcher knife, his response was something along the lines of, "well I think you need to let this be in your system for it to work", and he actually tried to tell me to stay on the drug.
The fact that I told him that this drug INSTANTLY made me have to fight my own body from stabbing myself with a butcher knife, and that he said I should "try to stay on it", has left me DUMBFOUNDED, and this was the first major wakeup call of learning when to tell doctors no.
Today is my first day taking prozac... I really had no idea that it was a huge phenomenon...
Same I’ve been talking it for a few weeks now and I had no idea about all of this
I hope it helps you 😁
I just started 4 days ago... some days I feel better, some other days I don’t. I know it takes some time to take it’s full effect. I’m hopeful.
@@cecymadrigal4531 yeah, it takes a few weeks to work, bear in mind you start on a low dosage and it can always be increased by a psychiatrist if necessary
Cecy Madrigal how have the last few weeks been? I just started 2 days ago with a small dose and I have actually been a lot better. Curious to your experience?
Man you know your depressed when the idea of taking this antidepressant is depressing to you
Lol
yeee
meta-depression. let's gooo
Prozac is a lesson to educate yourself on medications and know your options. Because I educated myself on bipolar medications, I was able to have an honest discussion with a leg up and be able to be medicated how I wanted and needed to be. If you need these kinds of meds, get a doctor specializing in medication management. They’re so much more helpful when it comes to this kind of thing.
i got prescribed this literally two days ago. took the first dose today.
I hope it helps. 😊
3 weeks later im starting to get over the side effects and i’m feeling overall good - not bad not upset but ok
@@ashton3808 I'm so glad to hear that for you 😊😊
How do you feel ? Are you still on it? Did it help?
Nayla Saleh i took it for almost a year now, i’ve switched as of a week ago due to other conflictions but it greatly helped me
Did not know this drug was such a big deal on the market, but I am not suprised. It have truly saved me from a lot of suffering.
Prozac saved my life
I was prescribed these for anxiety when I was 13. Gave me worse suicidal thoughts and I tried to od..
13? That's shocking I hope you are ok now hun?.
Same here. Hey, we made it though
It looks like the majority of you, have had positive outcomes with this drug. That makes me hopeful. Literally just got prescribed this today for my crippling anxiety & took my first dose today. I've been on Zoloft & Cymbalta, as well as Wellbutrin for a little bit. They all worked, but after a while, the changes in my mood were to severe & I wanted to stop. Just felt like a zombie... Zero emotion. Just apathetic towards everything. Was not a pleasant.
Not really sure what to expect with this, but hopefully it does me good.
Cymbalta is hell.
I hated Cymbalta
Cymbalta and Wellbutrin were terrible to me. I felt hollow and empty like I was just ghosting through life will no real personality.
How are you today?
I was on lexapro in college and my mom was like “no sweetie get on Prozac our family is a Prozac family 😌😤” bc it’s the only thing that worked for literally my moms entire side of the family LMAO
Lexapro (Escitalopram) is even worse regarding the ability to kill your libido than Prozac (Fluoxetine).
Prozac gave me crippling gastric reflux which resulted in several trips to the emergency department before I had to self diagnose the cause. After stopping it my GERD completely resolved.
I lost count how many friends have been on life long head meds since Prozac was introduced. I firmly believe the late 80s thru the 90s was the dark age of psychiatry where instead of treatment, there were drugs. Instead of diagnoses, there was guesswork.. and more drugs. All of a sudden, every young boy was attention deficient, hyperactive, depressed, or simply too angry. Now, years later, most friends, men since boyhood and women since early adulthood, are still on a cocktail of head meds, convinced they need them to survive. There is a reason the world is in the shape it's in.
A lot of them need medicine to survive in the real world ADHD for example if it’s very severe which is what I have I would be living off my family because there’s only so long we can focus before our brain just stops same with depression
Facts
The dark age of psychiatry ended with thorazine and prozac. Previously ECT, cold water dunks, and transorbital lobotomies were the norm.
Honestly, I still have a grudge against my child psychologist to not put me on SSRI. I first got them prescribed when I was 24 or so. In France. In FRANCE where docs don't debate for years and sometimes just do. I have had psychotherapy since I was 6 and it helped okayish. Only on SSRI I could finally put unlogical anxieties away and only in combo with Vyvanse (ADHD diagnosis took until I was 29) I don't have racing thoughts. Some shit you can only solve with biochemistry and as a scientist I prefer to experiment with drugs than exposing my vulnerabilities to a psychologist I did not trust who made things lot worse. There is no point in trying to go out if you are only left with your thoughts. There is no point in trying to meditate when this "unconditional acceptance" feels like giving up and staying in a shit situation. There is no point in doing all this crap that is advertised against depression, anxiety etc if you have untreated ADHD and every method to try just makes you feel like a failure because you blame yourself for not functioning and not doing enough. Whatever you do, it is never enough. And THIS is what some people need these crappy drugs for. I didn't like trading in my sexuality but I did it willingly over and over again because I'd rather have no libido and sex life at all than being crippled by anxiety each and every damn day that just makes me wanna kill myself. I have seen severe cases of depression and anxiety in the clinic and if these cases are left untreated by science then we didn't try hard enough as researchers and have failed as humans. Humans are partly biochemical machines and we know so much about chemistry and have tons of computational power. Every life lost to suicide due to depression, every case that could be treated by ketamine and didn't get sufficient treatment because ketamine is schedule 3, outlawed in the 70s etc, each of these cases is a failure for the scientific community and humanity as a whole! There are few illnesses as crappy as mental illnesses and they all deserve to be treated. I never want to hear again I should just try harder, not think about X, think about it less when there are case studies where a woman who never dared to go to the supermaket got treated with an opioid, went out the first time in 20 years and when they took the opioid away she was like before. Case studies like that are the reason why I will never blame anyone for failing at X. Why I will never tell someone - just try harder, push yourself harder, you are too lazy and all the other crap.
First year on it was great and that was back in 2016. I weaned off then when I took it again 5 months ago now I feel like it doesnt help the same. Still trying to figure out if I should be on it or not. I feel like I'm better on it but I'm not myself.
Tried taking Zoloft for 6 days and I had many side effects. I no longer want to take any antidepressant. Rather live with my social anxiety.
Not all medicines work the same! I experienced many side effects with Zoloft and Wellbutrin. I feel normal on prozac.
i was on prozac for about 2 1/2 years. It kinda helped my depression but sparked one of the most destructive manic episodes i’ve ever experienced. I know many who are on prozac and are very happy. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people.
Made me very agitated
This case sounds very similar to David Firth’s video “Cream”.
on prozac 40 mg rn honestly saved my life xx
I was put on it after my son's death. It stopped the pain. It stopped everything I watched a puppy hit by a car and walked right on. No thank you. A painless life is a joyless life.
Let's fix our shitty society instead of just treating the negative effects of our lifestyles.
@@JosedeJezeus What do you mean?
I used to take Prozac, but I don't anymore and I have sworn off psychiatric medication for life.
Prozac worked so well for me
ive been on several different antidepressants since i was 13 but never prozac. ive been on lexapro for a year and a half and its the best one by far. the only one that actually did anything
I took Prozac for like half a month. Yeah, I wasn’t anxious...but I couldn’t finish any assignment for school anymore and I just did not want to do anything. At all.
I’m thankful my cats hid the bottle from me so I could graduate hs. 😂
I know a lot of friends that take prozac and it works really well for them, but my experience with prozac is pretty bad. I couldn't sleep, lost my appetite and just felt... bleh...
I honestly can’t believe they had ads for anti-depressants in the US in the UK it’s never promoted
You are the only truth in ma life 🌹
It was never as big in countries where direct advertising to consumer is not permitted
I tried Prozac and got ill I couldn’t leave the house for 2 months.
I'm tapering off Zoloft and it's horrible , I had Prozac years ago for a short time with no side effects or withdrawals. My doctor said just switch but I'm scared of withdrawal from the sertraline , some say cross taper but my doctor said dont take both together.
I took Prozac back in the 2000’s and it made me go nuts. I was obsessed with death and developed an eating disorder that all went away after I stopped taking it.
Watching this because am about to take this medicine. I have depression for 2yrs and I lost alot of weight..n alway sad and alone ....watching this n reading comments make me smile but little nervous
I just started and I don't know how I feel about it. I feel less anxious and things generally feel... fine. Like just fine. Not I no longer feel defeated or when I do have these thoughts, it kinda just stops. But that's also the same with all other emotions. When I want to cry, its so hard to and that just feels uncomfortable.
Was it ur first time taking it ? cause this is my first time taking it
@@msdothedash Yes, it's my first time taking it. It's been pretty mixed In that first week - I couldn't cry when I wanted to. But I got used to it, as in I no longer even have that urge to cry for no reason anymore. I can still cry in super emotional instances. There were also some days that I truly felt happy and good about myself, but that was short lived. Most days now, I'm very unmotivated, still overall sad, want to sleep a lot and feel lost. These emotions are more toned down though, so I don't get overwhelmed. It hasn't been 6 weeks yet so I'll wait and see if it gets better.
Glad it helped a lot of people although my personal experience with it was quite traumatizing.
"traumatizing" 😅
Instead of figuring out why everyone is getting depressed , they just invented another reason to be stressed prozac
I have bipolar 2 and prozac saved me when I started taking it 6 years ago.. I'm still taking 40mg daily x
I loved being on Lexapro but unfortunately the itching side effects were way too severe for me. I already have eczema and i just couldn't handle that side effect.
Now my doctor has prescribed Prozac and I'm terrified to take it.
I've heard so many negative things about it like suicide attempts etc.
I discussed this with my doctor and begged for Citalopram. She insisted i try this.
Should i try it?
Prozac gave me non stop cravings for alcohol. When I stopped medication, the ridiculous cravings went away.
Interesting. Never heard that one before.
Prozac definitely didn't help me, personally. I was more depressed and became more suicidal.
Should have tryed to snort it it makes u so happy
Same.
Hannah Babel snorting stuff kinda sucks
I've been taking prozac for months now, have not seen much improvement in my depression, however I experienced the side effects quite drastically in the first month. But since then I don't believe I am feeling any effect from the drug. probably will seek new meds at some point
i have just been prescribed. took it, felt lil drowsy but not too.
“Socially rewarded...”
Sounds like training a dog.
At the psychological level, we’re just animals under the illusion we’re above them.
Account
No, we’re not. If we are, then surrender to them.
@@account4345 Yes, and just like animals we respond to conditioning.
Keith Wilson Surrender to animals? Why? Do other animals surrender to each other? Where did you get this stupid idea? What makes us different from animals? We’re better at a lot of things that evolution has deemed dominant over the rest of animal kind, but we aren’t inherently different.
Cecilia Martinez Absolutely
In 1947, a couple of prozacs flew to Earth in a silver saucer-shaped craft. After closely observing mankind, they shit themselves laughing and crashed into the desert in Roswell, New Mexico. The US Army found the shit covered craft, conducted an investigation, deduced what happened and out of embarressment told the public it was a weather balloon.
IV taken a lot of long term meds...all made me worst... And I gave them all 2 months ...I'm prescribed Prozac now...and I'm wondering will I bother takin it...
SSRIs and SNRIs prevent my pee pee from working correctly. I take welbutrin and it helps instead, without the side effects.
I have been taking Prozac and Tenex meds since I was child maybe i will said 4 grades until few months I start again using, I have been depressing, panic, heart attack. angry, and not feel hungry...
My sister is on this. Like rn
Prozac still is the best SSRI on the market!
Prozac made me almost kill myself, i suffered from many side effects
Same. I got so anxious and nauseous. Got brain zaps. Couldn’t leave the house for like 2 months.
I found my psychosis sort of gets rough on it
Same surprisingly a lot of people I know who been on it and myself know it’s very bad and had worsen the symptoms.
Same
@@madting8082 Oh those brain zaps I couldn't handle....
It's such a mixed bag for me because it helps my anxiety and panic attacks but I completely takes away my "happy feeling" and my sex drive is almost GONE so I'm on the fence but I think I want to get off of it since I'm only 20
I’m 20 also and my sex drive is DOWN the drain
They STILL single out women in these ads today!
Since women carry life and have a unique bond with the children they carry, they are more likely to suffer greatly when their children leave home. "Empty nest syndrome" is the reason depression in woman is so prevalent, and why women are so often the target audience.
Mothers belong with their children. The bond between mother and child, that's the bond that defines family. When it's broken, we become broken.
José de Jesus men still suffer from depression way worse than women with more men committing suicide because of it and a lot of men don’t talk about it to the extent that women do we just bottle it up until we can’t anymore or we die in one way or another
Kindness Kindness I said they men suffer worse I’m fully aware that women have higher depression rates than man
Kindness Kindness and plus men kill themselves more because most men can’t just throw themselves in a happy scenario like partying or hanging with friends because men on average work way more than women do so men can’t just have fun unless they can have the time and for me I wouldn’t I’d just drink my sorrows away
Prozac was terrible. Took away everything I felt. Had no appetite. And felt more depressed and suicidal. Told my doctor I may be bipolar. She said it would make it worse but gave it to me to try it out. Well it made everything worse.
Have you tried Abilify?
Reupload?
I started 4 weeks ago. Not sure is it helping. I had really bad anxiety attacks
Prozac makes you feel worse before you feel better! It means it’s working lol. You still on it? If so how do you feel now?
Prozac didn't work for me personally 🤷♀️
I always wondered what happened to Prozac. After all the hoopla, it just dropped out of sight. If it worked so miraculously, why was depression continuing to skyrocket? I was also skeptical about how it was supposed to "transform" people, which of course it didn't. It was only one drug of many, but for some reason the media began to put it on magazine covers.
It is still on the market. I wouldn't consider it first choice for depression due to the sexual side effects. Other ADs work quite well as well. There seems to be a distinction between serotonergic (low mood, anxiety) and dopaminergic (can't get out of bed, can't do anything) depression. But SSRI are amazing for anxiety disorder and OCD.
Prozac has made me weigh 90 pounds and everyone is scared about my weight now, it hasn't solved shit. Sulpiride, in the other hand...
I've lost my appetite and it's been 4 weeks
Well, I have taken most of the available antidepressants on the market, the side effects are minimal, but they don't help me at all
Just got prescribed with prozac by my neuro. How is it?
Works for some people great other people it makes it way worse. It made me lazy and not feel emotions half of the time.
Interesting.
Prozac kills my emotions. I need my emotions for some things. There’s something evil about it. Operating without emotion can cause your brain to make you into something you’re not. Gotta be careful with it.
Prozac is a madman who sits on the shore, morphs into a flamingo, and flys off into the sunset without a care in the world.
Prozac was only famous for being the first SSI anti depressant. Also if people have said it’s actually not very effective and caused worse symptoms many people I know on it said it’s the worst anti depressants and myself felt worse on it. A lot of users have said negative things about it. It was simply over hyped.
I’m taking this rn it doesn’t feel like it’s doing shit, maybe because I used to take lexapro.
Every day now my medication help me keep moving. Won't live without them..
It just kept hitting the covers of magazines. It was the poster child of antidepressants and treated as if it was the first or only effective antidepressant on the market. Doctors are susceptible to medical fads, and prescribed it because everyone else was prescribing it (though if you confront them with that, they are indignant and can't believe you would say anything so inaccurate and insulting). It was WIDELY known to disable sexual response, but patients were told "it only affects .03% of patients" and to just be happy they were feeling better and not be so greedy. You can learn to live without sexual pleasure and partner intimacy, can't you? It's a small price to pay. Then it came out that sexual dysfunction had only been "studied" for 3 weeks and that the rate of sexual disability was more than 30%.
Prozac is a very nice drug for chemical castration and should be used as first line medication for sex offenders who need to get chemical castration. Kills libido efficiently with 80% probability. But yes, it is a powerful antidepressant as well.
After two months this drug has tremendous changed and saved me. While this isn’t for everyone, the only side effect i have (oddly) is burping.
more than a year later this drug saved my life
Can you explain it a bit?? Is it as nauseating as Zoloft??? Does it help your motivation or does it tire you please?
@@tessalogan586 i’m not longer on either drug, but have tried both. neither made me nauseated. i’m sorry!
*prozac! Prozac! PROZAC!*
It's really helped me. I combine it with 5-htp and it works even better
OMG my doctor said Prozac interacts with 5-htp! I would stop combining the two if I were you.
Eat healthy, stay active, engaged socially, get plenty of sleep and stay drug free ! You will live a much more happy fulfilled life !
@@allhandsondeck3308 Depression is the worst disease out there what you are saying is wrong and obviously she has no idea about the illness!
Pro zac saved my life 🙊
It’s not working for me I still feel the same
Men detta är spelet "teotle" spelar,Och jag är bara glad att jag får vara med i den processen
Prozac didn’t do much for me sadly
This kinda makes me feel like I’m weird because it didn’t work for me
Sarah Wall Everyone has a different reactions to medication! It’s okay if Prozac wasn’t for you!
Most people I see in the comment section has had bad experiences! And at least their real people with real experiences. The people who made the show, almost not mentioning the agenda has no experience in using the drug itself. For people it has done nothing, for many much worse, and others it has helped. We're all very different! Especially the brain. Dont compare yourself and believe everything you see 😉 (not meaning anything bad. Just that people in general need to question more.)
Yes prozac
Does anyone here got the side effects of this drug , can you tell me , i think i will try it
I take this it's pretty good🖒
Prozac didn’t work for me, I actually took a bunch one time because I wanted it to make me more depressed so I could OD on another drug.... and I did and woke up in the hospital.
If anyone wants to have a good laugh at my expense the first time I ever saw a Viagra commercial I thought that erectile dysfunction has something to do with facial hair.
Lmao came here because I started using it today and found this
Don't let this video shake you, but do keep an eye open.
Is your libido already gone from the Fluoxetine?
🙏❤ "Sadness is from happenstance; whatever happened or did not happen for you, grief. Depression is the body saying F-- you, I don't want to be this character anymore. I don't want to hold up this avatar that you've created in the world. It's too much for me. Deep rest. Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you've been trying to play... My father just lighting up the room or wrapping everyone in a story and going, oh, that's the thing I want to do.. My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. He got a safe job. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job. And we had do everything we could to survive.. I saw his love and humor and how it altered the world around me, and I thought - that's something to do, that's something worth my time.. Now fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your life imagining ghosts. And the decisions we make in this moment, are based in either love or fear." -Jim Carrey