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Indeed, I've seen multiple people end up with their lives completely and utterly detailed, as well as wrecking their family and fiends (yours truly included) and a result of such prescriptions. I don't understand how this goes totally ignored by the public at large.

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Same here. SSRI -> different SSRI -> benzos -> antipsychotics. With some overlap.

Finally off of everything and it was fucking brutal. My life is a pale shadow of what it used to be. Relationships and finances burned to the ground.

Engaging with the mental healthcare system was one of the worst decisions of my life.

SSRIs and other anti-depression medication are a lottery. There often isn't a good rationale for picking one over another. Many people get great benefits; some people have to go through trying several drugs to get benefits; a few get dramatically bad side effects.

There’s genetic testing now that can help us avoid some of these problems.

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