its been about 2 weeks plus on me being on sertraline and here is my experience, I was hoping to hear other peoples experience with SSRIs?
- I Do feel stable and calm but I feel that way in a very specific way, I used to feel so many emotions, its not like my thinking or my mental state has improved it's just that my negative emotions have dimmed down, I still feel negative a lot of times it just I feel less strongly about them, If I wanna put this in gamer terms lets say I am a dnd character and without pills I used to take 80 emotional damage and now will pill I am only taking 30 emotional damage, so all in all my depression and my negative thinking is not gone but my sensitivity to it has been reduced
- one side effect I am facing constantly is that I am having digestive while I am on my meds, another weird thing is certain food now make me feel sick, cheese sandwich and pizza, now I crave sugar more but weirdly I feel disgusted myself with eating more then certain amount, I am going into habit of eating less or throwing half of my sandwich that I usually get or make at home. it is wild for me that my body doesn't like pizza anymore, big sad.
- I do think that it helps me get better at my job I work at a fast paced work environment and sometimes I cant keep track or focus on everything, it has gotten a little better
- I am feeling slightly less afraid of talking to people irl but I am still not that social, I am still afraid of letting people get close to me irl but I dont feel scared of strangers anymore and it was a huge problem about 2 years ago
again this is how I feel after 2 weeks + few days, do you have any advice for me or what should I do to improve more ? or tell me how was your journey with SSRIs ?
EDIT: I forgot to add how boring I feel and even good things that usually helps me feel good doesn't feel that fun anymore