Ever since I started to take SSRI's (Fluvoxamine) I've become an alcoholic...

SSRIs don't do anything for depression user. I can't be fucked to look up the study but serotonin levels don't even affect depression.
You're taking a meme pill that worked on placebo for certain gullible people.

Probably, you don't sound like you're so fucked up that you need them. I bet a lot of your problems could be fixed with lifestyle changes. There's no need to tinker with your brain chemistry user, you can change things yourself without a pill.

It's possible that the meds weren't working, and so you drink alcohol to compensate for the feeling you thought you'd have.

Also, the first weeks of taking an SSRI can make you feel more depressed until levels stabilize, which can also explain why you went to drinking.

Tell your doctor, they know what to do.

i take Celexa and it helps me stabilize and be regular with activity and moods

keep trying until you find a medication that makes you almost normal

sounds like youre attention whoring though

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202207/serotonin-imbalance-found-not-be-linked-depression
Here's the article about it. I'm sure you can find the data yourself.

>I can't be fucked to look up the study but serotonin levels don't even affect depression.
SSRIs help depression by acting as a neurosteroid. If they worked by messing with serotonin levels then they would take effect within a week. They typically require multiple weeks/months to have an effect.

You can do what this user says but be careful, what they're gonna do is switch you from drug to drug, not giving a single fuck about the long term impact of being on so many different brain altering drugs. It's what they did to me and all it did was make things worse.
Just because someone is a doctor doesn't mean you can trust them, but do what your best judgement tells you.

Alcohol makes anti-depressants completely ineffective.

Drop them. Shrooms. 0.1g-0.2g microdosing EOD/two-three times a week. Grow your own it's not that hard. You're welcome.

>what they're gonna do is switch you from drug to drug
user, your doctor works for you. All you have to say is that you don't want to be on the drugs anymore and they'll help you get off of them and find a different treatment. Drugs are used because they're easy, generally have some amount of positive effect, and patients will reliably take them.

Then what the fuck is the point of my psych prescribing me fluvoxamine in the first place? I don't feel good if I'm not fucked up on booze, I feel melancholia all the time, my addictive personality has become even worse, I feel astranged from my family, I feel alone, what the fuck do I do? I'll tell my doctor but I'm paranoid he will just switch me to another medication that will do me even more harm than good, I feel like I want to throw these fucking pills out the window and never go back to a psychiatrist

See
Ssris are a meme. I bet OP doesn't even workout

>SSRIs help depression by acting as a neurosteroid. If they worked by messing with serotonin levels then they would take effect within a week. They typically require multiple weeks/months to have an effect.
>something about the serotonin theory of depression
You understand that the psychology today thing doesn't disagree with me, right? Serotonin theory hasn't been a thing for a long time anyway. The mainstream media is only just now picking up on it for some reason.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670606/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245370/

They do. There are three problems here:
- You are referring to a mass media PR blitz based on one of the lowest quality papers I've ever seen
- You think that ssris increase serotonin, they do not. They are supposed to repress serotonin reuptake, which, if reuptake is overactive, would result in more baseline serotonin, but since that never was and never will be the problem, that doesn't work. The problem is serotonin itself (in this case), not serotonin reuptake, which is a scalable process as in most things.
- You think that depression is an illness, when it is a symptom (similar to "my shoulder hurts").
Most people who have depressions are serotonin-defficient depressives, but there are also dopamine or norepinephrine types.
Regarding serotonin-types, the most effective treatment is actually with serotonin receptor anti-agonists, especially targeting 5ht1a and 2a. This is the most effective mostly because it's the most available class of drugs that truly affects serotonin. Drugs that increase serotonin levels outright are both very rare and of relatively low efficacy, but otherwise would be preferable.
Finally, serotonin-defficiency illnesses are tenacious because they are self-perpetrating. Once you break the cycle you get to live a normal life until you are triggered the next time around. That is no bueno for big pharma, which is a big part of why they push ssris.

I'm not reading all that nerd shit.
You're acting like we know how the brain works because "i did a study"

Attached: stop talking.png (576x344, 89.2K)

Not true at all. Alcohol can make you think bad thoughts when you have a bad day, which the MSM reports as "can counteract some effect of antidepressants". The real problem with alcohol and antidepressants is that they can make some side-effects worse by synergy.