[hn_version_0023]

Cool, glad you had a positive experience. My experience was the opposite: emotionally numb to the point where awfully bad things happened in my presence and I barely shrugged.

Being unable to feel joy or pain, being unable to cry when a loved on passed on; these were the hallmarks of my time on SSRIs. Never again will I subject myself to these drugs.

It took me twice as long to get off them as I was on them. Two years of prescribed meds, 4 years to get off them. Six years of my life spent as a literal zombie person.

We don’t know why they work or don’t. Our experiences are just anecdata.

[worik]

> Our experiences are just anecdata.

Just?

Anecdotes matter