05-16-2016, 09:56 PM
Escitalopram here, currently 10mg/day. Was at 5mg/day for a few months and had low-dosage Fluoxetine/Prozac before that. I've documented some of my experiences on my journals (only been on anti-depressants since September 2015), though whether or not the meds have blunted sub-related effects and/or stunted sub-related progress I can't definitively say, but I do have some suspicions that they have.
All in all, my approach has always been "I don't want them, but if I absolutely need them as a last resort I'll take them" and in September I felt I reached that last resort. I do not want to be an unfeeling robot, but I also don't want to be feeling like the bad continuously and excessively outweighs the good, especially if I had continued to be as deeply internally affected by external stimuli and circumstances as I had.
All in all, my approach has always been "I don't want them, but if I absolutely need them as a last resort I'll take them" and in September I felt I reached that last resort. I do not want to be an unfeeling robot, but I also don't want to be feeling like the bad continuously and excessively outweighs the good, especially if I had continued to be as deeply internally affected by external stimuli and circumstances as I had.
A Better Alex (ISTJ): EPRHA → ASC → AM6 → …
A Sexy Alex (ESTJ-T): BIABWS+DAOS → DMSI → …
A Better Alex (ENFJ-T): AM6 → …
A Sexy Alex (ESTJ-T): BIABWS+DAOS → DMSI → …
A Better Alex (ENFJ-T): AM6 → …
