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Drs put me on Fluoxetine?

Mark

As some of you may have seen my last post, I was out on Sertraline.

apparently it’s has the same side effects, but I’ve been given Fluoxetine. Dr told me that if Sertraline does work for you, Fluoxetine will.

Again, he didn’t tell me the side effects and I had to google them myself. 

Has this worked for you? Have you been on both drugs and felt any different? 

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  • early in my Prozac experience I experienced a tendancy towards acting out my internal aggressions.

    Then I got a weird idea stuck in my head, that seemed utterly true, and which I should act on, that only my usual process of "testing reality" saved me from. (That I recognised as a serious psychological issue, that was both new to me, outside of strong psychedelics, but it was worse) 

    Later I did act out my aggression on someone (who admittedly was bullying me and "asking for" it badly, but for people like me a double standard kicks in if we actually fight back, so I usually find a better solution to such problems) which had more serious consequences than feeling lost and miserable all the time. 

    I discontinued the drug against my doctors advice, and I decided to "man up" and become my own doctor in these matters for a while, at least until I see some evidence that they really know what they are doing with depressed and distressed patients.

    Because, after all, at the end of the day as a man I am biologically equipped & compelled to try and TAKE CHARGE of a situation if no-one else is already doing it right. It's written in my genes. (And on my jeans too, it says "Wrangler"!) 

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  • early in my Prozac experience I experienced a tendancy towards acting out my internal aggressions.

    Then I got a weird idea stuck in my head, that seemed utterly true, and which I should act on, that only my usual process of "testing reality" saved me from. (That I recognised as a serious psychological issue, that was both new to me, outside of strong psychedelics, but it was worse) 

    Later I did act out my aggression on someone (who admittedly was bullying me and "asking for" it badly, but for people like me a double standard kicks in if we actually fight back, so I usually find a better solution to such problems) which had more serious consequences than feeling lost and miserable all the time. 

    I discontinued the drug against my doctors advice, and I decided to "man up" and become my own doctor in these matters for a while, at least until I see some evidence that they really know what they are doing with depressed and distressed patients.

    Because, after all, at the end of the day as a man I am biologically equipped & compelled to try and TAKE CHARGE of a situation if no-one else is already doing it right. It's written in my genes. (And on my jeans too, it says "Wrangler"!) 

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