Prescribed fluoxetine but uncertain
Hello…. I’ve been getting therapy since the beginning of this year, and as of little more than a month I have been seeing a psychiatrist.
She prescribed fluoxetine for me, and I picked up the medicine this morning and was set on taking it- but I’m hesitant. I feel very scared, and I’m worried it’s the wrong thing to do.
I am stuck with the uncertainty of knowing if I am a person who needs medicine assistance or not.
My life without is manageable. I am OK most days, but I have days where my sadness or anger is uncontrollable. But it’s not a daily instance. Sometimes not even weekly. And sometimes it occurs several days in a row. Many times I already feel I don’t feel or care a lot.
My main problem is anxiety, and some problem with low mood/energy and desire of life or things in life.
My anxiety and more deeper sadness goes in waves. It can be OK and be just mental, and other periods it can be more overwhelming to a point where it triggers bodily symptoms and also panic and/or anxiety attacks but it is more rare.
But generally speaking, I feel like my daily life is OK, until I have days where it is not. But how do I know if those few days outweigh and makes it needed for me to take medicine??
And if I take the medicine, will it alter my brain and body functionality even if I stop? If I don’t continue taking it for a long time? Is it hard to come off of? How difficult is the starting process?
But my most important question is, how did you know or decide medicine was needed for you?