Quite a few years ago I'd been on Celexa. Stopped taking. Getting established with new Dr, he'd asked why I'd stopped. I told him I'd gotten divorced. And the symptoms stopped.
From a different angle, acknowledging that imbalance is real, but also aware that it can begin if we live our lives in an imbalanced, stressful, and unnatural way. It's good to examine how we're living, and if it lacks peacefulness. Is your life regularly out of balance and unfulfilled?
Just some additional thoughts
I had my mind made up I wasn't going to comment on this thread since it's mostly just throwing around highly subjective experiences and various behavioral disorders with the resulting prescriptions and their respective side effects. And as you can see, it's a tangled bird's nest that results in little or nothing conclusive at all. Or put simply, that different medications affect everyone differently. Period. It's not quite as bad as throwing darts at a board but pretty close. And on a message board, the chances of success are almost nil. You find support. Which is nice. Sometimes even efficacious on its own.
But this post here, above, is the first to suggest that you may need to make some ACTUAL LIFESTYLE/BEHAVIORAL CHANGES. Thank you sister for that insight. Yes. Women often make better progress simply bc they are by nature (and there are certainly exceptions) willing to do that work. To make those changes. For example, to excise a person that is inherently BAD FOR THEM. To look at their life and make the necessary adjustments so that their life fits them rather than trying to force themselves into someone else's best life. Men are more stubborn and often the biggest sissies or hardheaded when it comes to facing reality or making their own reality and lifestyle changes.
I also want to thank my bud that said medication can be good but without any behavioral therapy, the progress from drugs alone may or even probably will only be temporary because you are expecting a chemical to do the heavy lifting and make everything all right. Sometimes they do, though more often than not, they don't. This leads to frustration and the belief that there is no hope when nothing could be further from the truth. Or the guy throws his hands up in the air and says it's all worthless. This is actually not always a bad thing. Means they recognize that in order for changes to be made, they're going to have to make them themselves.
So how do we sum up this thread? Well for one thing it should be clear to the OP that this is clearly the wrong board for this type of question/problem. Suggestions are great but in this thread he was pretty much given the suggestion of every major common psychotropic substance available.
Now, I have to point out that nobody even mentioned tricyclic or MAOI classes which have proven successful in many patients that respond poorly to the SSRI/SNRI/SSNRI class of medications. A class which is now so plentiful that you could try a different one every 6 months almost in perpetuity with or without any success.
Additionally, one of the posts above was wrong that side-effects, including ED and anorgasmia, never dimish over time. Untrue. I would say in half to 75% of occasions they do subside. But you have to be patient and have people around you who will be supportive and patient WITH you. Which brings us right back to making lifestyle changes and dispatching those people around you who are toxic or perhaps a job/career that's toxic, or stop your steroid abuse, and 100 other things that are problematic or standing in the way of your mental health. Sure there are perfectly normal healthy people out their taking PEDs. About 1%. And that's being generous. So if you're in this thread and you're reading this, you're probably not one of those people.
Anyway, just some additional things to ponder.
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