My main concern about trying SSRIs is that they’ll make me stop noticing certain things that I care about, things that currently manifest as anxiety or so.
I’ve had SSRIs for 2 years. Then got off of them. They covered up a lot of stuff and I finally dealt with it once I got off of them. Now I’m back on them though, but on a half dose. It’s easy enough to keep noticing the stuff I want to work on, while also giving me a bit of ‘thicker skin’. What I’m trying to say with my experience is: although SSRIs can cover stuff up, the degree to which they do so might be dose dependent.
Hmm I don’t recall no longer noticing things that I care about while on them. Of course, since I was less anxious, then having less anxiety also meant noticing less anxiety. But I think that either the anxiety just felt content-less and not associated with anything that I cared about, or to the extent that it was tracking things I cared about, I was able to track those even without it.
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My main concern about trying SSRIs is that they’ll make me stop noticing certain things that I care about, things that currently manifest as anxiety or so.
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I’ve had SSRIs for 2 years. Then got off of them. They covered up a lot of stuff and I finally dealt with it once I got off of them. Now I’m back on them though, but on a half dose. It’s easy enough to keep noticing the stuff I want to work on, while also giving me a bit of ‘thicker skin’. What I’m trying to say with my experience is: although SSRIs can cover stuff up, the degree to which they do so might be dose dependent.
Hmm I don’t recall no longer noticing things that I care about while on them. Of course, since I was less anxious, then having less anxiety also meant noticing less anxiety. But I think that either the anxiety just felt content-less and not associated with anything that I cared about, or to the extent that it was tracking things I cared about, I was able to track those even without it.