u/Educational-Guess913

I got up from breakfast and felt sort of like my legs were heavier. I listened to a favorite song and it sounded slower than usual? So much that I checked the playback speed, nope it was normal speed. Is this the brain fog I keep hearing about? I'm even more demotivated than before!

Does anyone else feel the same way?

Recently I am considering asking my doctor about taking an SSRI, I am considering escitalopram and sertraline.

But my impression from hearing about people's experiences with SSRIs is mostly that they cause a lot of fatigue and dulling of emotions (and other undesirable side effects of course). I can see how these would be one side of a coin that also helps lessen anxiety, but I can also see how this would just make me more unproductive and depressed...

My question is, Does anyone have experiences on either of these SSRIs that were actually helpful and helped them with motivation and helped them out of depression?

Has anyone found a way to increase more subtly from 150mg XL? For example by adding like 75mg SR or something? If so can you specify the doses/pills and when you take them?

I know it's prescribed for seasonal affective disorder in addition to other things, so in that sense I know it's used short term, but how many people have used this drug otherwise in a shorter time frame as an aid to sort of get them through something or out of a rut?

I'm just thinking about this because I only started ten days ago, but I'm wondering to myself hypothetically if it ends up going well, how long will I be taking this medication? Frankly I don't like the idea of having to take this "forever" (not that there's anything wrong with that choice).

I'm not asking people to tell me specifically what to do--- I get that I should talk to my doctor--- but just generally speaking is it used for that?