Posted by Iansf on December 8, 2004, at 14:16:19
In reply to DoSSRIs make people less caring? Of course they do, posted by francesco on December 6, 2004, at 12:44:32
> I think you're right. SSRIs make people less caring and less empathetic (if you think about it's exactly the same thing that 'less sensible to rejection').
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While Prozac definitely made me less "feeling," it didn't make me behave less empathetically. When my mother died, I breezed right through it, which at some level I truly did not like, but I was able to express concern for others probably better than I could have had I not been on Prozac. So it was an odd sort of wash.On the other hand, neither Luvox nor Cymbalta, which I'm taking now, reduced my sympathetic emotions, yet both of them boost serotonin. I would guess it's some factor other than simply altering serotonin levels that's at play, maybe to do with neurotransmitter balance.
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