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I haven’t taken any since 2008. Looking back, they were a nightmare. I don’t think it’s the drugs *necessarily* but how they’re administered. Doctors seem to feel the need to tinker with your scripts and it can cause some really difficult results. I started all the way back in 1992 . I don’t like to place blame on things other than my own decisions, but I could make a solid argument that the drugs they had me on and the way they kept changing my treatments ruined my high school years and led to me dropping out. I started when I was a 7th grader with straight A’s. I have an award signed by George Bush because I never got anything below an A throughout elementary school. But then I never passed a class in 8th grade or all of high school. My doctors and parents never seemed to connect that to my treatments. Once I made the choice to stop taking them because of some really awful side effects, I started getting my shit together and being able to hold jobs. I still have problems that occasionally get serious, but I’m not on the rollercoaster I was on for those 15 years

I will say I know people the SSRIs have done wonders for. So I won’t tell people not to give them a chance. I just think you should temper expectations, be careful with them, and be as honest as possible with doctors to let them know what they’re doing to/for you