u/Kitchen_Wrangler_490

I have a history of mild to moderate anxiety and depression, and have tried SSRI's in the past which helped me a lot to basically erase my anxiety and depression. Im not on SSRI for more than 2 years now but had a crisis recently so my doctor prescribed me fluoxetine. Now I'm in dillema of whether I should take it, even though I feel okay now and feel I'm not in crisis anymore. Is it justified to take them to improve my quality of life even though I have a decent quality of life now?

What my psychiatrist told me even though I feel okay now, my anxiety still keeps me away from revealing my true potential.

In the past when I was taking an SSRI I kind of felt living up to my potential more then when I was not on SSRIs...

Hello,

I got prescribed prozac which I hadn't start taking. It was prescribed by my new psychiatrist. Now I told him that I was taking sertraline in 3 cycles and it had worked for me fine, I reacted to it pretty well and had almost zero side effects. That led me to question why he prescribed me new SSRIs despite me telling him I felt good on sertraline. So now, 25 days after I had it prescribed, I still hesitate to take it…

So what would be reason for that?

My primary problem is GAD but mostly social anxiety and prozac, as I know, can actually worsen anxiety and sertraline is best for social anxiety.

What do you think about prozac and in which cases would you prescribe it over another SSRI?

Hello,

I got prescribed prozac which I hadn't start taking. It was prescribed from my new psychiatrist. Now I told him that I was taking sertraline in 3 cycles and it had worked for me fine, I reacted to it pretty well and had almost zero side effects. That led me to question why he prescribed me new SSRIs despite me telling him I felt good on sertraline.

So do you guys have any idea how they choose which one to prescribe?

My primary problem is anxiety and mostly social anxiety and prozac, as I know, can actually worsen anxiety and sertraline is best for social anxiety.