Posted by crabwalk on January 17, 2007, at 18:13:00
In reply to anhedonia, posted by falconman on January 17, 2007, at 10:38:01
You've probably read my above post. I feel exactly what you've described, and for me it was never this way before taking ssris. I was anxious and couldn't sleep, which led to chronic stress, which led to feelings of depression. But during that time I still had a response to music, was capable of not just having sex but having very good sex, had fun drinking, was attracted to girls, the list goes on and on, everything that was rewarding in life I was still capable of responding to. Now it's basically nothing, marked most starkly by sexual side effects persisting after quitting prozac for almost 2 years now. Actually I think they're more accurately described as sensual side effects, since my general body sensation feels 'bleached out'. This emotional/sensual state led to the disintegration of my relationship and the possibility of other realtionships, and this has left me quite depressed. Before drugs, I never seriously considered life so bleak that it was not worth living, it took the ssri-induced changes to make things that bad.
How to treat it? I'm hoping a combo of wellbutrin and remeron will do something...I'm not exactly holding my breath though.
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