• nebulaone@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Started antidepressants (sertraline) 2 weeks ago, after refusing them all my life, because of the studies that are mixed at best. I am a pessimistic guy, but I can tell they are starting to work way beyond placebo. It gives me hope after feeling hopeless for most of my life.

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      2 hours ago

      I was on sertraline a while back. Like the other poster, it was a dramatic difference – like the broken part of my brain was put on mute. Suddenly, life didn’t seem so hopeless.

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        2 hours ago

        Great to hear! Looking forward to the follwing weeks, because I was told its effects increase over at least a month.

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      5 hours ago

      That’s the one I’m on! It helped me immensely and I could never picture going back now. It was so bad at one piont I could barely get out of bed for anything and now I hop right out of bed to get the day started! Been on it for many years now, and have no regrets.

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        3 hours ago

        Awesome. That is very encouraging. Thank you. I am glad to hear you’re doing better now.