re: Anyone have any experience with Prozac?

My experience with Prozac was brief and nearly deadly. It caused Serotonin Syndrome and would have killed me if I stayed on it. Basically my face and head went numb and so did the entire left side of my body. Moreover, I was having atrocious visions of violence that were too vivid. I personally would NEVER recommend Prozac, but some people seem to do just fine on it.

The major problem with any SSRI is the temporary weight gain and moobs, which subsides once you get off of it and get your hormones back in balance. Zoloft, for instance, will make you limp the entire time you are on it, if you are a male. It's like being dead from the waist down.

a low consistent dose of a benzo with a long half life is way better than dealing with the long long list of ssri/snri side effects imo

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you can suck my right tit

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Be careful about making offers like this. You're gonna have the hard leggers coming out of the wood work.

It was always there but exapearated itself upon seperatiion ...the loss, thks ur support brother

Prozac caused me dizziness and tremors. After stopping use after just 2 doses, I was waking up in sweat for three weeks. I was disorientated at times. Costs me two trips to the emergency room.

Ironically, 10 years later, I started a similar Ssri, Paxil and never had any side effects.

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Try Zyprexa

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Don't. That's an antipsychotic. Definitely don't use it as your first, second, third, or even fourth line of treatment for anxiety or depression. It can sometimes be use for very treatment resistant anxiety and depression when most other typical treatments have failed No Zoloft is a different story. That's also an SSRI. If you suffer from anxiety and depression you should consider An SSNRI, such as Effexor or Lexapro .

With that being said you should really consider cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and depression. if you have OCD, the most effective form of long-term treatment is a cognitive behavioral therapy called exposure with response prevention. That is the gold standard for OCD, not medication . Of course it's a lot more work, but it is more effective in the long run. But as many have said, medical treatments and psychotherapy is very from person-to-person .

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That nut job that shot up the school in Connecticut was on Prozac. In fact there have been several mass shooters in recent years that were on Prozac at one time or another.

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And what that means is those people probably suffered from anxiety, depression, or both

Yeah, I messed up once and drank with benzos. That was a horrific experience. Not being able to drink on psych meds makes them not worth taking for a lot of people.

Some people get benefit from meds, but there is no magic cure that will lift your blues and worries. It takes self awareness and specific emotional skills. If you have to take meds, it works best with a good self help book. Buy "Feeling Good, the New Mood Therapy" by Dr David Burns. I lended this book to some of my patients and it worked better than medication. It takes less than a week to read a book.

Pills don't give us the emotional skills needed to carry on while taking the knocks of life.