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October 16, 2004 at 9:26 am

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OK these aren’t recreational substances, but I have noticed they are very commonly prescribed in my area by the National Health Service to those who have “burned themselves out” through the use of recreational drugs at raves!

Beware – there are increasing reports that they have side effects which can include the patients commiting suicide or even attacking others.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1309077,00.html

As well as these newspaper articles; I can confirm a friend of mine who was prescribed Seroxat ended up setting himself on fire in the middle of the street; a girl I know on prozac seems to have just disappeared from the party scene and doesn’t socialise as much as she used to.

If you are suffering “burn-out”; as party drugs are not physically addictive it may be far better to just abstain rather than expect a “different pill” from a “legit” doctor to make you better!
November 5, 2004 at 2:52 am

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Yep i can personally testify to this. Seroxat causes your brain to produce massive amounts of serotonin to make you feel better, just like ecstacy does. Now imagine pilling 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It drove me into a half mad paranoid insomniac. After 2 and a half weeks i had a row with my sister and before i knew what was happening i had smashed the flat up with an iron bar and tried to kick the door to her room in. Needless to say the next day i flushed the rest down the toilet and a week a later i was feeling much better.
July 24, 2011 at 8:12 am

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There are a lot of reported cases on the detrimental side effects of SSRIs and that includes Prozac, Seroxat and of course Paxil…
July 24, 2011 at 1:07 pm

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I totaly agree GL I’m quite against Prozac being prescribed so readily. I’m sure there are some people it really does benafit, but the way it’s so readily prescribed to anyone who’s having a bad day is a bit wrong imo. I’ve seen it make people totaly shut off from others and tell me they don’t have feelings when on it.
July 25, 2011 at 9:21 am

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It was described to me by one person who took it for a while as “smiling all the time while inside your head you are screaming”. Doesn’t sound good to me.
Getting off them again can be a challenge too apparently
July 25, 2011 at 1:06 pm

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yeah they are quite habit forming too.
July 25, 2011 at 4:02 pm

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I can confirm what people are saying about prozac….altho i wasnt prescribed prozac i was given sertraline (very very similar anti-depressant, with very similar side effects)

It made me unable to sleep, made me sweat even when freezing, made me feel no better than when i didnt take it and to top it all off it gave me problems in the bedroom (cudnt cum lol)…i was supposed tob taking them for 6 months but threw them in the bin after 6 weeks….and now i feel soo much better for not taking them.
July 25, 2011 at 4:24 pm

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@Voodoomonkey 445540 wrote:

I can confirm what people are saying about prozac….altho i wasnt prescribed prozac i was given sertraline (very very similar anti-depressant, with very similar side effects)

It made me unable to sleep, made me sweat even when freezing, made me feel no better than when i didnt take it and to top it all off it gave me problems in the bedroom (cudnt cum lol)…i was supposed tob taking them for 6 months but threw them in the bin after 6 weeks….and now i feel soo much better for not taking them.

not surprised you didn’t get any benefits 6 weeks is too shorter time.
July 25, 2011 at 4:49 pm

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@extraslim 445541 wrote:

not surprised you didn’t get any benefits 6 weeks is too shorter time.

nah not too short a time…..i was prrescribed them after collapsing at work (drug related) and experienced the side effects straight away. My doctor warned me it would take 2 weeks to start feeling any different from them…..however i didnt…..i only experienced the side-effects and will never take them again
July 25, 2011 at 5:04 pm

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@Voodoomonkey 445542 wrote:

nah not too short a time…..i was prrescribed them after collapsing at work (drug related) and experienced the side effects straight away. My doctor warned me it would take 2 weeks to start feeling any different from them…..however i didnt…..i only experienced the side-effects and will never take them again

ah right I stand corrected. Personally I had bad experiences with all anti depressants but I know they do work for some.
July 25, 2011 at 7:17 pm

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A girl I used to go out with swore by them for some time saying that they helped her. I didn’t belive her as she seemed so fucked up and miserable when she was on them. She’s off them totaly now from choice and turns out she was only saing they helped her as she was dependant on them and didn’t want them to stop getting prescribed to her.

They actualy made her feel like total shit but the withdrawrals she experianced were worce then how they made her feel so she went into denyal and carried on taking them for ages.

She was allways talking about not being worth anything and wanting to kill her self etc. whilst on them. Now she’s off them (I still speak to her from time to time) she’s so much happier and is enjoying life and killing her self is not an option in her head anymore thank god!
July 26, 2011 at 12:47 pm

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@extraslim 445544 wrote:

ah right I stand corrected. Personally I had bad experiences with all anti depressants but I know they do work for some.

Snap m8, mine cud only b described as a bad xp but i trusted my gp…he also placed me on anti-psychotic medication, which again imo did nothing
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