This is why I find the commercialisation of drugs in America so fascinating. The ability to run ads on TV for drugs simply does not happen in other countries.
@@pfw4568 We do get 'drug' ads on TV here in Germany. They only advertise light pain killers like Asperin and simple cold meds for instance, nothing that is addictive or abusable.
@@pfw4568 alright. That is not possible. Some drugs you can buy over the counter, same ones advertised on television. Everything more potent/dangerous needs a prescription from the doctor before you can buy it. The hardest meds, like Antidepressants or opiats and other pain medication even needs a "Betäubungsmittel Rezept", which means anesthetic prescription. These are hard to get and hard to counterfeit.
I think it should be illegal to advertise drugs directly to consumers. Doctors should be an unbias third party that weights the pros and cons with you.
Well, now pharmacy companies market drugs directly to doctors, and essentially pay them bribes to prescribe a certain amount of their medicine to a certain amount of the doctors' patients
I don't get the hype I was on Prozac for a year and it did nothing but make me sleepy and almost day dreaming all the time. I wish I had the results these people had.
@@brandondavidson4085 You probably already know but they are required to report any money received as a doctor. There's a database you can search to see if any of your doctors have received money for selling a certain drug
It is illegal in other countries! For example, I live in Canada and companies are not allowed to advertise drugs to us. But I live near the US border so our cable picks up some American tv stations. It's disgusting how many drug ads are shown during commercials. It's crazy!
People talk bad about anti-depressants, but I went on Prozac when I was 16 and it changed my life. I finally got relief from the terrible pain of depression.
Antidepressants have way too many side effects to be the first line of treatment for depression. Psychotherapy is the first line, and if that does not work then antidepressants are used. These drugs are dangerous, but can be effective. 1/3 of depressed people need psychotherapy, 1/3 need antidepressants and the last 1/3 are screwed. We still do not have a good overall method to treat depression.
@@solarmurals314 if you are bipolar then they could lead to mania. Had that happen to me and I assumed that it was an afterglow. My friends told me I was acting strange and I realized there was something wrong. Still a lot better than being depressed.
It's not a "happy pill." It can stabilize your mood and help you from feeling like you're falling into a bottomless pit. Really helped me a lot when I was my mom's caregiver and she had dementia.
Which is why I'm never passing the burden on my son when I am elderly and need help. Not to diminish what you did for your mom, that takes a very strong person.
It makes me happy to read this comment section. Hearing about people who go from a dark place to loving life again is one of the most inspiring things for me to see. If your current in that dark space, trust me, it will get better!
OCD, Anxiety, Depression, an Eating Disorder, Severe Agoraphobia, My life was over. I had been living a nightmare my whole life. Prozac changed everything. My life is amazing. It saved my life
I was on prozac for a year and I've been on SSRIS for three years total. They've saved my life. I used to be almost bedbound from depression and anxiety. I'm now graduating on time, an AP student, and doing as well as I can. I went from C's and D's to A's and few B's. I still have depression, but it's so much more manageable now. I don't feel like I'm suffocating from my mental health. I can manage my depression when I have a relapse. Update: I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and put on lithium. I feel even better now on lithium than I did on SSRIs. I'm stable. I've only had one relapse since starting lithium and that lasted less than a day. It also has helped my anxiety immensely. Turns out the highs I was having on SSRIs were hypomanic episodes. I'm not an A/B student anymore, but I'm not failing. I'm stable. I have a social life now. I'll be grateful for my time on SSRIs for helping me function even somewhat, even with the enhanced hypomania.
Sam Smith Your story sounds just like mine. I just started taking Prozac and I have stopped sleeping my life away, crying, feeling hopeless on the verge of suicide and neglecting absolutely everything in my life. I wish I had this drug years ago..
They don't pay us anything. My story is extremely similar to these. Although, I still sleep too much as the side effect I have. But I stopped having such severe panic attacks, and then after a few months had fewer and fewer. My migranes were maniged with the previous SSRI I took, as were my stomach problems (look up the research papers of SSRI and gut health.) But it did little to help my deteriorating mental state. And going up actually made it worse. Finally went to a psych appointment and got on this Prozac. After about a year of working on dosages, I am balanced and able to start catching up from the 6 years of total mental shutdown.
it's crazy to see the comments section for once actually be filled with sensible reception when it comes to SSRI's, usually it's everyone spewing "i had a bad experience so therefore it's bad for everyone!!"
When I was younger I suffered from severe anxiety and depression; you could not stand the state of my personal hygiene and self care. Every day I attempted suicide because I felt so horrible. I couldn't function, I didn't eat, I didn't shower, and when I did something it was always crying and breaking down. My family had taken me to a therapist, and then came a night where I locked myself in a bathroom, with a plastic bag. The morning after I was in the hospital, in the psychiatric unit. The treatment I got, and the medication, helped save my life. Ever since I've recovered I feel like I'm happy, and I'm able to live happily. I'm so thankful for my recovery- I can live and dream, living doesn't hurt anymore, and I'm excited to live the rest of my life, both the ups and the downs.
I absolutely love my prozac. Going from having multiple anxiety attacks a day to rarely having one in a months time is like night and day. I've gotten so much better because of prozac!!
You must be very wealthy to still be getting this. Either that or a Lilly PAP program. It has been off patent since 8/2001. There is no formulary in the world that will cover this anymore. I know because I tried. You are probably getting generic fluoxetine. The bioequivalence is suspect.
Prozac made me 100 times worse. One side effect is actually suicidal tendencies and it can do the opposite of what it’s supposed to do. Please remember it’s not for everybody. Thankyou
I have been taking Prozac for now 13 Years. I started on 10 MG then went all the way up slowly to 80 MG. I could not deal with the side effects, Mainly I was sweating a lot, I felt my heartbeat was fast most of the time and my Anxiety increased. So I decided to reduce it to 20 MG, The side effect reduced and i feel better, Somedays when i feel more down I go 40 MG but most of the time I am on 20 MG. I realized it's about being on the right dose to feel just right. This med has saved my life. There is no way i would still be a live without taking it, that I am 1000% sure.
I just started Prozac and it has already made such a huge difference in my life. Im not as worried, Im calm, Im happy, I can focus, I dont ruminate, Im no longer paralyzed with fear everyday. I didnt even realize how difficult things were for me until I no longer had to cope with them.
It makes me happy to hear that prozac has helped people so much. I tried it in highschool, it worsened my depression, I gained 40lbs, and I ended up hospitalized. It’s fascinating how a medication impacts patients so differently
+Peter Mount Doctors are not always aware of alternative treatment options, thus sticking with older drugs they've been prescribing. Directly advertising to customers is the way to go today. How do you think doctors find out about new drugs? They do not have the time to sit down and read articles, instead they rely on patient referrals and pharmaceutical reps.
Yes, sure, market to lay people who lack training in pharmacology OR statistical analysis skills.....FWIW, Drug companies marketing prescription-only drugs to the lay public in Australia are very strictly regulated by the TGA.
I’ve never had a bad experience with anti-depressants, but I was on sertraline and recently changed to fluoxetine and it has worked really well, I actually didn’t know prozac was so culturally relevant
I graduated a degree in college but when my husband passed away I suffered from panic attacks. I did little jobs here and there because my anxiety was a big hindrance for me in practicing my degree. I tried prozac months ago and now I am working as a Medical Laboratory Scientist in a hospital. My panic attack stopped. I’m calm and happy. I used to take cbd oil which helped a lot too.
Because Americans not only have no idea what happiness is, realistically, but they also have no idea what would make them happy and so they have no way of knowing how to go about it.
Actually the whole serotonin imbalance theory has been effectively debunked. SSRIs are only marginally better than placebo at treating mild depression. The root of the disorder these days is thought to be a dysfunction in the hippocampus.
Prozac felt like I found a reason to live and life didn't seem that bad after all The pain in my heart from being depressed wasn't there anymore when I took anti depressants I wake up every morning with a smile
I'm on my first pill today and I can tell it's working. It's a "it's going to be all right" fuzzy feeling. I've tried so many drugs before and I think I found what I needed.... finally.
I am on Prozac for major depressive disorder. It has literally worked wonders for me. I have MDD with psychotic features. This medication has been a life saver for me.
@@ahmedfraz8324 everyone is different but i didnt have a sudden change, one day I just realized I was getting better gradually and that itself made me happy
To anyone planning on getting antidepressants, please don’t only think Prozac is the only working pill. For me, it made me worse. But, my best friend has changed for the better with it. It took me three med changes to find my antidepressant. Stay strong everyone 💜 meds can be so powerful
I've been on Prozac more than year now. I just had t read Prozac Nation. It was relatable and made me begin to write my own memoir of the subject.Bene working on it almost a year now.
No joke, I have a cat who was prescribed Prozac by our vet. She has really bad anxiety and feline hyperesthesia syndrome. Prozac has worked wonders for her.
I was put on prozac as a child like before the age of 10 for behavioral issues and anxiety and it mad me more anxious, suicidal and worse than any other drug.
Have been on it twice over a 25 year period. It's helpful short term imo. Long term? Not all anxiety is bad and there are times when it's completely appropriate to be depressed. I found that eliminating these emotions lead me to making some choices which had terrible consequences. A little anxiety and an appropriate amount of depression would probably have caused me to decide a different course of action.
I'm sure there were other ways to help you. People like you are very bad because they sustain this killer drugs. I am sorry but that's the truth. Most people that take them have no need for them. Many (like me) are forced. Fix your problems other ways, don't turn to psy drugs.
Tudor Renegade I would be dead without this life saving drug. My brain doesn't produce enough serotonin and this drug elevates it to normal levels. There is no other way to fix it, it's a mental illness. You have no understanding of it.
you're just not thinking hard about obsessive negative and destructive thoughts.. It's like you're implying everyone who is smart has clinical depression.
@@thecsslife sure that's depressing, but there's difference from feeling a little sad a couple times because you know too much and having long-term clinical depression.
I appreciated so much not being depressed for the first time I could remember that I thought if I had a son, I'd name him Zac out of gratitude. I'm not joking. If someone hasn't experienced depression, I don't think they can understand what it feels like.
I was put on Prozac as a child in 2010. It made me suicidal, but my doctor refused to take me off because "it worked for my brother and mom". She then said that if I ever said I wanted to die again, I needed to be admitted. I was literally 9 at the time. I stayed on it until I was in eighth grade and eventually ended up admitted. Now I'm on a mix of Amitriptyline and Zoloft, but jeez, prozac literally changed my life. Not in a good way either.
I was struggling to get clean from 24 years of drug and alcohol dependance. I finally got to 6 months clean and was so depressed i thought about throwing in the towel and going back to drinking and shooting drugs. The doctor prescribed me prozac which I wasn't happy about but I took it anyway and it pulled me out of the depression. It helped me keep pushing forward and I didn't go go back to my life of addiction. Today i'm still clean and sober and life is good.
@@Bubba__Sawyer Things have got a lot better for me. I no longer take Prozac (after 1 year) but i do other things to keep myself healthy instead. The only reason any of us take medication in this day and age is that we're living in very strange times.
Its the over the top marketing of drugs that makes me hesitant of taking them. When they become a product, your wellness becomes at least second priority to making money to the company producing them. Once that ship has sailed you will then struggle to find effective medicine instead of an ineffective product. At least prozac set the trend, so maybe its better fingers crossed as I'll be on them from thursday.
Honestly, it has helped me more than anything else. I had it perscribed for Anxiety/depression after another SSRI failed. It's a wonder drug, and has pretty much the least amount of side effects of SSRI's.
I've got BDD, chronic depression and anxiety since I was 12 yo. I took 80mg of Prozac every day for about 4 years and a half and it worked pretty well for me, it didn't 'cure' me but it allowed me to live a normal teenage life without feeling blue, anxious or suicidal. I'm on Zoloft and psychotherapy now tho
I just got prescribed Prozac and I’m so glad the people in the comments are saying it helped them 😭 I’m kinda scared to take it but only bc it’s so commercialized
the “moving toward true self” was so true for me. i was able to get myself out of depression for the most part but i felt stuck in a depressive state i couldn’t break through. prozac did this for me, i finally feel as though i’m really living and enjoying aspects of my life. however my hair has thinned significantly from it :/
I’ve lived 28 years with horrific anxiety. For 28 years I’ve gritted my teeth and forced myself through life, suffering every day. A month ago I started Prozac and I already feel the edge being taken off. It’s incredible. It may not work for some people but I’m sleeping better, thinking better, much more relaxed at work and I’m just more jovial. I’m thankful for this drug lol.
So... Is it safe and effective? When I started watching this, I thought this was going to be the main question that would be addressed. However, I don't think this was directly answered. The last part of this report talks about ads for medication. That could probably be its own report. Doesn't seem super relevant to Prozac??? I assume the current medical consensus is "yes, it is safe and effective" with the usual caveat of "under your doctor's supervision", since FDA approval has not been withdrawn.
allyourcode Actually, I've witnessed first-hand how the field practitioners who AREN'T funded by a county program are quietly concurring that it's been over prescribed and to too wide of an age range and to too many disorders. In this line of thought, there's followed the observance that because of this, it's been more harm than good, and no one EVER mentions the almost uncontrollable rage that it brings on in MANY people. It accentuates the hyper active moods... Hence the name... It basically has had some of the same visible outcomes as stimulant street drugs. (Rage fits that follow hyper and seemingly passive upswings that begin to burn out into irritably and ultimately into a full on tantrum with a minor trigger... If the trigger wasn't an external one. It kinda sounds like an extremely short cycling manic-drepression (bi-polar) which is exactly what my second psychiatrist told me it was. And why she didn't prescribe it to prepubescent people... It's like a controlled mania to balance the depression.)
It is as safe as the FDA says it is, but they've been wrong many times before. The rule of thumb is usually if it hasn't killed anyone yet, then it's safe. From my own experience, it made matters worse. I was having vivid homicidal dreams and thoughts; and felt like I could just about do anything. Temper became much shorter as well, and I'd cry for no reason while just walking down the street. Coming from a place of being clinically depressed and suffering from PTSD, to finally accepting help, and then this happens to you...it can be quite a lot. It was a lot. I almost killed myself and thought of taking several with me. I'm no longer on the drug and have started treatment with cannabis instead. I haven't had a suicidal thought since I started 2 years ago. I'm healthier, happier and can deal with life/my past now. I still cry and get sad, but it doesn't feel like the end of the world anymore. No more homicidal dreams or thoughts since I've stopped taking the SSRIs. On the other hand, my mother has tried them(when she was going through a sad moment in her life) and it did absolutely nothing for her. It helped her a little at first(I think it was just the placebo effect), but then did nothing. She still felt sad.
Prozac is used as both an antidepressant and amti-anxiety medication, like most SSRIs, and like other SSRIs, the effect it has on mental health varies depending on the person. For example, Zoloft, another popular antidepressant, can work for one person but not for another with the same condition. Since side effects of SSRIs can include suicidal thoughts (ironically enough), it can be dangerous depending on how your brain works. However, for other people that get better and don't face physical side effects, it is completely safe.
I was on Prozac for two years as a teenager, sadly it didn't work for me but made things worse. I lost all drive and was unable to leave my bed for days as I no longer felt anything. Luckily I found a different medication that actually worked but prozac makes me feel uneasy.
@@anonymous6082 i was diagnosed by a psychiatrist and they decided medicine was the best route for me. Different things work better for different people, it may not be the best thing for you or it might be but im not the one who can tell ya that. The first step is diagnosis & work from there ^^
I took this medicine 9 month this is very effective During corona i could not go hospital and i have one year gap Know i started this medicine again 10 days ago When it will effect me?????
@@kinglouis6974 Ask your doctor for it. They'll give you the authority to walk into the pharmacy. Ask for the brand name Prozac, the pharmacy might try to trick you into buying the generics.
On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity.
Have you ever thought that maybe it wasnt the drug? It was really a placebo effect which made you feel hope, that hope in return allowed you to strive for more.
i got put on prozac when i was 13 years old because i was having mental breakdowns and suicidal thoughts, at first my dosage started at 20mg a day then it continually increased as my depression worsened. i was on prozac for less than a year (around 4 months), but my psychologist was always increasing my dosage when she wasn't seeing any improvement, which was probably a terrible idea. by the time i was taken off of it my dose was around 100mg, being on prozac made nothing better for me. i stopped feeling anything in a way, i was going through my days feeling like a numb bag of bones and while i was on it, i attempted suicide 3 times. i was still a kid and the medical professional who was supposed to care for my well being was pumping me full of drugs while ignoring my mother's concerns over the side effects i was experiencing.
Thankyou for sharing your experience. Doctors and psychiatrists play down or even flat out deny these kinds of experiences on antidepressants. It's very important for people to share their unbiased, unfiltered experiences of antidepressants online so that people can be aware of what could potentially happen to them.
yeah ive been on it for 3 weeks and feel pretty good. My anxiety got worse though but apparently it gets worse before it gets better for some people although I feel allot less down. I'm glad to hear its working for you btw
These videos make a difference, you can see the human bonding by the comment sections. This is one of the few videos where the comment sections have been so clean. Thank you Commenters and the Washington post. Continue making more videos and informing the world of real issues. I also want to compare this informational video to how much the news have become tabloids, but I don't want this comment to make the comment section more toxic, so I'll reference it like this.
As someone who has taken Prozac for several years of my life, I can safely say that it’s not that useful, especially on its own. For depression, it can help stabilize your mood and it’s more effective for some people than others but it lost its effectiveness for me and coming off of it was a horrible experience, I relapsed and was far more depressed than even when I first attempted suicide which is why my doctor prescribed it to me in the first place. It is a relatively safe drug, which this video never even gets into, but it’s true effectiveness lies in conjunction with therapy and lifestyle changes
This prescribed medication helped me. I had other options, but Prozac has been around a lot longer and being aware of my naivete, I figured it was better to choose a medication that's been around longer and studied longer. It really does help stabilise mood. It doesn't make you happy, but allows you to function again when you exhibit clinical catatonic depression.
It’s definitely not for anyone who is bipolar; it can drive them off the deep end. I’ve seen a close friend absolutely loose it because his doctor gave him Prozac to treat depression, not realizing he was bipolar.
Reality check. I was in a bad marriage, which caused me to have suicidal thoughts, the man in question was manipulative to the max. In the same way that oppressive men did to outspoken wives in the 1850’s (laudenum), the whole Prozac kept from leaving an abusive marriage. It made me feel like a zombie, quit after a few months. Took me another ten years and some really good psychologists that enabled me to leave him. Even then he was trying to convince our family doctor that I was just “depressed” and needed some meds, she disagreed, and said I seemed to be a very happy person (I had already started the process of getting him out of my life.
All medication works differently on different people. I see some people in the comments state that Prozac had the exact opposite effect that it was supposed to. However in my case it was a miracle drug.
I use to see Dr Kramer, and he was a wonderful Dr. He listened when I was at my lowest and was willing to look at alternatives to Prozac when it didn’t help and was one of the first to suggest an autism diagnosis for me. I miss working with him.
I want to read peter kramer's book! it looks very interesting and i like the concept . the title he chose for the book was alluring and interesting. way to go doc!
i was prescribed prozac when i was barely 12 years old, for “depression “. I wouldn’t admit it to my dr at the time, but I was just living in an abusive environment and everyone just wanted me to stop crying so much. of course it didn’t help me , so I stopped taking it after a short while to appease my family . But when I got a little older ~18 It was very useful for controlling my moods during my cycle . I wasn’t as randomly weepy , or angry . I eventually didn’t need that anymore as I controlled my cycles with BCP. For me , all other anti depressants I had tried would make me either angry or tired. Prozac helped me gain some normalcy !
I feel like this does well to capture how much Prozac was lauded and then demonized before evening out. I didn’t know that some psychiatrists considered it for really tough cases though! I always thought of it like a starter medication. When I was 18 I finally decided to get help for my depression and my pediatrician prescribed Prozac for me. It helped a little but ultimately I was still having intrusive thoughts and my ocd was still bad so eventually I was put on the maximum dose. In that very short time, I started to think about killing myself all the time. I didn’t want to die, it was just a repetitive intrusive thought that came at every opportunity. If I was in traffic I thought about getting out of my car and getting hit by another car. I changed meds after that and through some trial and error and bad therapists I’m finally on three meds that work really well. I can drive and hold down a job now. I don’t succumb to the compulsive rituals as much anymore and I don’t hate myself. I still have bad days. But not as many. I can function which is ultimately what ssris are meant to help you do. Not make you happy the way Prozac marketed themselves, but to help people that cannot function under their depression, capable of doing basic stuff to live a normal life.
I've been on prozac for about a week now and I notice positive change. Of course, a week of taking it doesn't change much, but I already don't wake up every morning, feeling like i want to die like I used to. It's been years since I last woke up and was excited for the day. I'm so thankful my psychiatrist put me on it. Of course it's not for everyone but for me it's an amazing tool to finally help me get my life together.
Well, PMDD probably isn't "scarier than all hell" (pretty close), but it sure is a HUGE problem!!! Especially for times when the only ones to explode on were my children; my poor babies. That's why my doctor put me on Xanax, and I hate that crap!!!! So, my doc just switched me to Prozac instead and I am thinking it's really helpful for PMDD!!!! I'm excited actually to be free from demon me!!!! ;)
it's weird how they said "suddenly there was a pill for problems we didn't know we had" and started talking about restless leg syndrome, which causes nasty insomnia and can feel incredibly maddening. and also portrayed pmdd as something fake, when it is very real and generally lacking in awareness. jeez, it was actually a relief to have a label and a treatment for a malignant problems. you kinda can tell these editors have never been sick
I definitely am one of those who became more like themselves rather than becoming like a new person with an SSRI (not Prozac). It was like I had had amnesia, and suddenly I remembered who I used to be. I was someone who could live in the moment and enjoy myself. I had a sense of humor. I could laugh things off. It didn’t solve all my problems, but it greatly improved my quality of life, and SSRI adjustments and related meds have helped through major episodes. Everybody responds to different medications differently. So yes, some may have very negative effects. But I believe this class of drugs has saved many lives, and improved the lives of many others.
prozac was a god-send in my life. I struggled with depression and anxiety for a LONG time, and had tried other meds that either didn't work or had terrible side effects. it was a total miracle for me.
I was on Prozac for years. I was fifteen years old and taking 60 milligrams every day. Once off of the meds I crashed. I’m get my diagnosis changed, yes it did change me, for worse
When I wake up in the morning, I'm 'ok' to be alive, thanks to Prozac. That woman at the start said it best. I still suffer anxiety and eating problems. But at least I'm no longer suicidal.
I had horrible side effects from Prozac. I had been adhd but never violent. Prozac made me loose my sanity. I had no control over my emotions. I raged nonstop, couldn't stop. I hurt people. Finally I figured out it might be this drug, because I wasn't like that before. I stopped taking it and I finally regained control of myself. It was a nightmare. I have no idea who the person was that Prozac turned me into.
I don't get it. The doctor told me I need to 'stabilise' my mood. But I told her I feel NOTHING. I feel EMPTY. How does feeling MORE numb help me when I take Prozac? By the way its making me really drowsy and yet I am being FORCED to take it. Like with it, I just want to lie in bed all day and night, not feeling like getting up. How is this helping?
This is why I find the commercialisation of drugs in America so fascinating. The ability to run ads on TV for drugs simply does not happen in other countries.
Yeah because in other countries you can buy any US prescription drug over the counter
@@elihernandez800 What? Not here in Germany
@@pfw4568 We do get 'drug' ads on TV here in Germany. They only advertise light pain killers like Asperin and simple cold meds for instance, nothing that is addictive or abusable.
@@Kugelschrei My response was meant for that guy claming we could just buy any medication over the counter
@@pfw4568 alright. That is not possible. Some drugs you can buy over the counter, same ones advertised on television. Everything more potent/dangerous needs a prescription from the doctor before you can buy it. The hardest meds, like Antidepressants or opiats and other pain medication even needs a "Betäubungsmittel Rezept", which means anesthetic prescription. These are hard to get and hard to counterfeit.
I think it should be illegal to advertise drugs directly to consumers. Doctors should be an unbias third party that weights the pros and cons with you.
Well, now pharmacy companies market drugs directly to doctors, and essentially pay them bribes to prescribe a certain amount of their medicine to a certain amount of the doctors' patients
I don't get the hype I was on Prozac for a year and it did nothing but make me sleepy and almost day dreaming all the time. I wish I had the results these people had.
@@brandondavidson4085 You probably already know but they are required to report any money received as a doctor. There's a database you can search to see if any of your doctors have received money for selling a certain drug
which is why it IS illegal outside of US
It is illegal in other countries! For example, I live in Canada and companies are not allowed to advertise drugs to us. But I live near the US border so our cable picks up some American tv stations. It's disgusting how many drug ads are shown during commercials. It's crazy!
People talk bad about anti-depressants, but I went on Prozac when I was 16 and it changed my life. I finally got relief from the terrible pain of depression.
Emily LLoyd they all work differently on different people . SSRIs never had much of an effect on me but I tried Wellbutrin and it works for me.
Antidepressants have way too many side effects to be the first line of treatment for depression. Psychotherapy is the first line, and if that does not work then antidepressants are used. These drugs are dangerous, but can be effective. 1/3 of depressed people need psychotherapy, 1/3 need antidepressants and the last 1/3 are screwed. We still do not have a good overall method to treat depression.
@@xxaidanxxsniperz6404 Psilocybine is very promisxing!
@@solarmurals314 if you are bipolar then they could lead to mania. Had that happen to me and I assumed that it was an afterglow. My friends told me I was acting strange and I realized there was something wrong. Still a lot better than being depressed.
fr it saved my life but yeah its different for everyone
It's not a "happy pill." It can stabilize your mood and help you from feeling like you're falling into a bottomless pit. Really helped me a lot when I was my mom's caregiver and she had dementia.
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Thank you for sharing. It really helped me too. The key is to find the lowest effective dosage. 10mg worked well for me with few side effects.
For some reason, violence feels very, very good on Prozac
Which is why I'm never passing the burden on my son when I am elderly and need help. Not to diminish what you did for your mom, that takes a very strong person.
You’re basically eating toothpaste
It makes me happy to read this comment section. Hearing about people who go from a dark place to loving life again is one of the most inspiring things for me to see.
If your current in that dark space, trust me, it will get better!
Studies show people recover from depression more often without SSRI's than with them.
OCD, Anxiety, Depression, an Eating Disorder, Severe Agoraphobia, My life was over. I had been living a nightmare my whole life. Prozac changed everything. My life is amazing. It saved my life
OCD is FAKE
anxiety is FAKE
depression is FAKE
eating disorder is a CHOICE
agoraphobia is FAKE
STOP feeling sorry for yourself and grow up
I was on prozac for a year and I've been on SSRIS for three years total. They've saved my life. I used to be almost bedbound from depression and anxiety. I'm now graduating on time, an AP student, and doing as well as I can. I went from C's and D's to A's and few B's. I still have depression, but it's so much more manageable now. I don't feel like I'm suffocating from my mental health. I can manage my depression when I have a relapse.
Update: I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder and put on lithium. I feel even better now on lithium than I did on SSRIs. I'm stable. I've only had one relapse since starting lithium and that lasted less than a day. It also has helped my anxiety immensely. Turns out the highs I was having on SSRIs were hypomanic episodes. I'm not an A/B student anymore, but I'm not failing. I'm stable. I have a social life now. I'll be grateful for my time on SSRIs for helping me function even somewhat, even with the enhanced hypomania.
Sam Smith Your story sounds just like mine. I just started taking Prozac and I have stopped sleeping my life away, crying, feeling hopeless on the verge of suicide and neglecting absolutely everything in my life. I wish I had this drug years ago..
Congratulations
It does work very well. And I never wanted to take psych meds
They don't pay us anything. My story is extremely similar to these. Although, I still sleep too much as the side effect I have. But I stopped having such severe panic attacks, and then after a few months had fewer and fewer.
My migranes were maniged with the previous SSRI I took, as were my stomach problems (look up the research papers of SSRI and gut health.) But it did little to help my deteriorating mental state. And going up actually made it worse. Finally went to a psych appointment and got on this Prozac. After about a year of working on dosages, I am balanced and able to start catching up from the 6 years of total mental shutdown.
Wow....congrats
As an anxiety and OCD sufferer I used to take Prozac, it amazed me how quickly I made progress with this medication.
Cool! Yeah it worked for me too with my social anxiety.
it's crazy to see the comments section for once actually be filled with sensible reception when it comes to SSRI's, usually it's everyone spewing "i had a bad experience so therefore it's bad for everyone!!"
What made you stop taking Prozac? Did you ever go back on it?
Cool
I am a beginner, what doses should I use?
When I was younger I suffered from severe anxiety and depression; you could not stand the state of my personal hygiene and self care. Every day I attempted suicide because I felt so horrible. I couldn't function, I didn't eat, I didn't shower, and when I did something it was always crying and breaking down. My family had taken me to a therapist, and then came a night where I locked myself in a bathroom, with a plastic bag. The morning after I was in the hospital, in the psychiatric unit. The treatment I got, and the medication, helped save my life. Ever since I've recovered I feel like I'm happy, and I'm able to live happily. I'm so thankful for my recovery- I can live and dream, living doesn't hurt anymore, and I'm excited to live the rest of my life, both the ups and the downs.
Always good to hear these stories from internet strangers. Good for you :)
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After how long you begin to see improvement
I absolutely love my prozac. Going from having multiple anxiety attacks a day to rarely having one in a months time is like night and day. I've gotten so much better because of prozac!!
Have you gained any weight from being on Prozac?
@@Xoxo.ginaaa I lost 35lbs being on it because I stopped emotionally eating
It makes you into a zombie
Same here
You must be very wealthy to still be getting this. Either that or a Lilly PAP program. It has been off patent since 8/2001. There is no formulary in the world that will cover this anymore. I know because I tried. You are probably getting generic fluoxetine. The bioequivalence is suspect.
Prozac made me 100 times worse. One side effect is actually suicidal tendencies and it can do the opposite of what it’s supposed to do. Please remember it’s not for everybody. Thankyou
And the really taboo one nobody speaks about is its made some people homicidal
Yeah I was on ProZac and attempted suicide not once but twice...than they put me on Lexapro which was the same thing🤦🏾♀️
Skylar DuCharme opposite of suicide is homicide. But yes it does both
that’s how pristiq was for me
@@kamilkarwat2706 they were saying opposite of depression. Not suicide
I have been taking Prozac for now 13 Years. I started on 10 MG then went all the way up slowly to 80 MG. I could not deal with the side effects, Mainly I was sweating a lot, I felt my heartbeat was fast most of the time and my Anxiety increased. So I decided to reduce it to 20 MG, The side effect reduced and i feel better, Somedays when i feel more down I go 40 MG but most of the time I am on 20 MG. I realized it's about being on the right dose to feel just right. This med has saved my life. There is no way i would still be a live without taking it, that I am 1000% sure.
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I just started Prozac and it has already made such a huge difference in my life. Im not as worried, Im calm, Im happy, I can focus, I dont ruminate, Im no longer paralyzed with fear everyday. I didnt even realize how difficult things were for me until I no longer had to cope with them.
It makes me happy to hear that prozac has helped people so much. I tried it in highschool, it worsened my depression, I gained 40lbs, and I ended up hospitalized. It’s fascinating how a medication impacts patients so differently
This marketing of drugs like Prozac directly to consumers in this fashion is outrageous and must be stopped.
+Peter Mount Doctors are not always aware of alternative treatment options, thus sticking with older drugs they've been prescribing. Directly advertising to customers is the way to go today. How do you think doctors find out about new drugs? They do not have the time to sit down and read articles, instead they rely on patient referrals and pharmaceutical reps.
+Deep Jajal The average person does not have a medical degree. How the hell can you justify saying that?
***** I've been seeing news articles saying there is evidence that use of antidepressants leads to more suicides.
why? People like u need to be stopped
Yes, sure, market to lay people who lack training in pharmacology OR statistical analysis skills.....FWIW, Drug companies marketing prescription-only drugs to the lay public in Australia are very strictly regulated by the TGA.
I’ve never had a bad experience with anti-depressants, but I was on sertraline and recently changed to fluoxetine and it has worked really well, I actually didn’t know prozac was so culturally relevant
I'll be starting from zoloft to now prozac soon. Zoloft did nothing for me at all.
@@sarahwilliams8630 same thing here. Just got prescribed Prozac after Zoloft.
@@tornadotayte Prozac and Lexapro are top 2
Boy, if you saw Prozac now and how it's really taken off lol
Just eat toothpaste to calcify your pineal gland and dull your feelings and thought, flouride is the main ingredient in both.
I graduated a degree in college but when my husband passed away I suffered from panic attacks. I did little jobs here and there because my anxiety was a big hindrance for me in practicing my degree. I tried prozac months ago and now I am working as a Medical Laboratory Scientist in a hospital. My panic attack stopped. I’m calm and happy. I used to take cbd oil which helped a lot too.
Why do so many Americans suffer from depression? Shouldn't we look at the causes?
Madonna
i think it has alot to do with what we put in the food nowadays horomones, etc
the cause is a lack of seretonin in the brain. what needs to be done is how to make it so no one lacks that Chemical
Because Americans not only have no idea what happiness is, realistically, but they also have no idea what would make them happy and so they have no way of knowing how to go about it.
Actually the whole serotonin imbalance theory has been effectively debunked. SSRIs are only marginally better than placebo at treating mild depression. The root of the disorder these days is thought to be a dysfunction in the hippocampus.
Prozac felt like I found a reason to live and life didn't seem that bad after all
The pain in my heart from being depressed wasn't there anymore when I took anti depressants I wake up every morning with a smile
Lucky you. Despite Prozac, my depression is still here.
Silvia B.
I would talk with a psychiatrist about different options, there are other medications and treatment plans out there.
I'm on my first pill today and I can tell it's working. It's a "it's going to be all right" fuzzy feeling. I've tried so many drugs before and I think I found what I needed.... finally.
@@silviab.850 maybe you have adhd and need stimulants
@@ada-boy Did it finally work?
I am on Prozac for major depressive disorder. It has literally worked wonders for me. I have MDD with psychotic features. This medication has been a life saver for me.
Have you gained weight while on Prozac?
Prozac saved me from my awful depression and OCD. I've never felt more healthy and amazing.
Are you still on it
@@kristymarie6065 im no longer on it, I eventually eased off of Prozac
After how long you begin to see improvement.. I am taking prozac 20 mg for 4 weeks now but there is no noticeable improvement
@@ahmedfraz8324 everyone is different but i didnt have a sudden change, one day I just realized I was getting better gradually and that itself made me happy
I'm 5 days in on prozac no improvement on GAD but, I feel happier and more awake
To anyone planning on getting antidepressants, please don’t only think Prozac is the only working pill. For me, it made me worse. But, my best friend has changed for the better with it. It took me three med changes to find my antidepressant. Stay strong everyone 💜 meds can be so powerful
What did you end up taking?
only three?????
So what ended up working for you then?
I've been on Prozac more than year now. I just had t read Prozac Nation. It was relatable and made me begin to write my own memoir of the subject.Bene working on it almost a year now.
Prozac has changed my life
I was always on edge daily panic attacks very snappy and the list goes on I thank God for this medication
Prozac saved my life decades ago. I still take it 35 years later.
Love it!
can you please tell me is Prozac good for social anxiety ????
@@quotesparadise852 Only slightly effective. Buspar? Hydroxide? Clonidine?
Dose it make you tired
No joke, I have a cat who was prescribed Prozac by our vet. She has really bad anxiety and feline hyperesthesia syndrome. Prozac has worked wonders for her.
Migitri ....lol
Ban weed, sell prozac. Well played murica
prozac isnt actually that bad. it helps a lot
Weed is legal in many states...
GAm a Weed is addicting,prozac is not,you are welcome.
Garrett Bischoff how
@Jesus Christ both treatment mental illness
Prozac saved my life during a period that I needed it
I was put on prozac as a child like before the age of 10 for behavioral issues and anxiety and it mad me more anxious, suicidal and worse than any other drug.
PROZAC HAS HELPED ALOT I BEEN ON IT FOR 2 months and I feel so much better and I feel more confident about myself
Have been on it twice over a 25 year period. It's helpful short term imo. Long term? Not all anxiety is bad and there are times when it's completely appropriate to be depressed. I found that eliminating these emotions lead me to making some choices which had terrible consequences. A little anxiety and an appropriate amount of depression would probably have caused me to decide a different course of action.
I’ve been on Prozac for weeks now. It’s been helping a lot.
Prozac saved my life
+Alexis Anderson You don't know that.
I do 100% - it got rid of my suicidal ideation.
I'm sure there were other ways to help you. People like you are very bad because they sustain this killer drugs. I am sorry but that's the truth. Most people that take them have no need for them. Many (like me) are forced. Fix your problems other ways, don't turn to psy drugs.
Tudor Renegade I would be dead without this life saving drug. My brain doesn't produce enough serotonin and this drug elevates it to normal levels. There is no other way to fix it, it's a mental illness. You have no understanding of it.
+Tudor Renegade if you wanna suggest an alternative im all ears, ive not started taking them yet but will soon
Started Prozac today, i really hope it works and feeling quite optimistic after watching this video.
Are you still taking Prozac?
If you're not depressed, you're not thinking hard enough
If youre depressed, youre probably depressed
Danny, you win the entire internet. 😦
you're just not thinking hard about obsessive negative and destructive thoughts.. It's like you're implying everyone who is smart has clinical depression.
I dont have depression but the truth is depressing
@@thecsslife sure that's depressing, but there's difference from feeling a little sad a couple times because you know too much and having long-term clinical depression.
I appreciated so much not being depressed for the first time I could remember that I thought if I had a son, I'd name him Zac out of gratitude. I'm not joking. If someone hasn't experienced depression, I don't think they can understand what it feels like.
Prozac saved my life!! Been on it for 3 years now!
I was put on Prozac as a child in 2010. It made me suicidal, but my doctor refused to take me off because "it worked for my brother and mom". She then said that if I ever said I wanted to die again, I needed to be admitted. I was literally 9 at the time. I stayed on it until I was in eighth grade and eventually ended up admitted. Now I'm on a mix of Amitriptyline and Zoloft, but jeez, prozac literally changed my life. Not in a good way either.
Hope you're hanging in there my friend
I was struggling to get clean from 24 years of drug and alcohol dependance. I finally got to 6 months clean and was so depressed i thought about throwing in the towel and going back to drinking and shooting drugs. The doctor prescribed me prozac which I wasn't happy about but I took it anyway and it pulled me out of the depression. It helped me keep pushing forward and I didn't go go back to my life of addiction. Today i'm still clean and sober and life is good.
That’s awesome
Are things still going well for you? Are you still on Prozac?
@@Bubba__Sawyer Things have got a lot better for me.
I no longer take Prozac (after 1 year) but i do other things to keep myself healthy instead.
The only reason any of us take medication in this day and age is that we're living in very strange times.
Its the over the top marketing of drugs that makes me hesitant of taking them. When they become a product, your wellness becomes at least second priority to making money to the company producing them. Once that ship has sailed you will then struggle to find effective medicine instead of an ineffective product. At least prozac set the trend, so maybe its better fingers crossed as I'll be on them from thursday.
No drug works for everyone its a lot of trial and error
Don't take them. Very simple.
Any update, Reina?
Honestly, it has helped me more than anything else. I had it perscribed for Anxiety/depression after another SSRI failed. It's a wonder drug, and has pretty much the least amount of side effects of SSRI's.
I've got BDD, chronic depression and anxiety since I was 12 yo. I took 80mg of Prozac every day for about 4 years and a half and it worked pretty well for me, it didn't 'cure' me but it allowed me to live a normal teenage life without feeling blue, anxious or suicidal. I'm on Zoloft and psychotherapy now tho
I just got prescribed Prozac and I’m so glad the people in the comments are saying it helped them 😭 I’m kinda scared to take it but only bc it’s so commercialized
Please be your own advocate, i was overprescribed it! Good luck💗
I keep waiting for the "but Prozac had a dark side...."
the “moving toward true self” was so true for me. i was able to get myself out of depression for the most part but i felt stuck in a depressive state i couldn’t break through. prozac did this for me, i finally feel as though i’m really living and enjoying aspects of my life. however my hair has thinned significantly from it :/
I’ve lived 28 years with horrific anxiety. For 28 years I’ve gritted my teeth and forced myself through life, suffering every day. A month ago I started Prozac and I already feel the edge being taken off. It’s incredible. It may not work for some people but I’m sleeping better, thinking better, much more relaxed at work and I’m just more jovial. I’m thankful for this drug lol.
2 years later, is Prozac still good? Or do you have adverse effects?
So... Is it safe and effective? When I started watching this, I thought this was going to be the main question that would be addressed. However, I don't think this was directly answered. The last part of this report talks about ads for medication. That could probably be its own report. Doesn't seem super relevant to Prozac???
I assume the current medical consensus is "yes, it is safe and effective" with the usual caveat of "under your doctor's supervision", since FDA approval has not been withdrawn.
Same I was thinking the same thing. Especially sense I’ve somehow never heard of this “amazing drug”
allyourcode Actually, I've witnessed first-hand how the field practitioners who AREN'T funded by a county program are quietly concurring that it's been over prescribed and to too wide of an age range and to too many disorders. In this line of thought, there's followed the observance that because of this, it's been more harm than good, and no one EVER mentions the almost uncontrollable rage that it brings on in MANY people. It accentuates the hyper active moods... Hence the name... It basically has had some of the same visible outcomes as stimulant street drugs. (Rage fits that follow hyper and seemingly passive upswings that begin to burn out into irritably and ultimately into a full on tantrum with a minor trigger... If the trigger wasn't an external one. It kinda sounds like an extremely short cycling manic-drepression (bi-polar) which is exactly what my second psychiatrist told me it was. And why she didn't prescribe it to prepubescent people... It's like a controlled mania to balance the depression.)
It is as safe as the FDA says it is, but they've been wrong many times before. The rule of thumb is usually if it hasn't killed anyone yet, then it's safe. From my own experience, it made matters worse. I was having vivid homicidal dreams and thoughts; and felt like I could just about do anything. Temper became much shorter as well, and I'd cry for no reason while just walking down the street. Coming from a place of being clinically depressed and suffering from PTSD, to finally accepting help, and then this happens to you...it can be quite a lot. It was a lot. I almost killed myself and thought of taking several with me.
I'm no longer on the drug and have started treatment with cannabis instead. I haven't had a suicidal thought since I started 2 years ago. I'm healthier, happier and can deal with life/my past now. I still cry and get sad, but it doesn't feel like the end of the world anymore. No more homicidal dreams or thoughts since I've stopped taking the SSRIs.
On the other hand, my mother has tried them(when she was going through a sad moment in her life) and it did absolutely nothing for her. It helped her a little at first(I think it was just the placebo effect), but then did nothing. She still felt sad.
Fluoxetine is a fine drug and outside of regular side effects of antidepressants and 100% safe
Prozac is used as both an antidepressant and amti-anxiety medication, like most SSRIs, and like other SSRIs, the effect it has on mental health varies depending on the person. For example, Zoloft, another popular antidepressant, can work for one person but not for another with the same condition. Since side effects of SSRIs can include suicidal thoughts (ironically enough), it can be dangerous depending on how your brain works. However, for other people that get better and don't face physical side effects, it is completely safe.
I was on Prozac for two years as a teenager, sadly it didn't work for me but made things worse. I lost all drive and was unable to leave my bed for days as I no longer felt anything. Luckily I found a different medication that actually worked but prozac makes me feel uneasy.
Been depressed since highschool and now as an adult in this drug I'm finally getting back on track and not wanting to rest or sleep most of every day
I love the retro report intro, so creative and unique for every episode.
Well, this will be intresting. I take Prozac myself, for my anxiety. It works really well for me, I haven't had a panic attack in quite some time.
I’m through depression , how do I take it?
@@anonymous6082 i was diagnosed by a psychiatrist and they decided medicine was the best route for me. Different things work better for different people, it may not be the best thing for you or it might be but im not the one who can tell ya that. The first step is diagnosis & work from there ^^
Prozac was like the 4th or 5th medicine I tried and was the only one that worked.
I took this medicine 9 month this is very effective
During corona i could not go hospital and i have one year gap
Know i started this medicine again 10 days ago
When it will effect me?????
@@lovedeepkaur7035 Are you still taking Prozac?
Prozac is a gift from god it's as if I'm different person in a good way.
But why didn’t do anything for me ?
Prozac has been the most helpful drug I have ever taken.
The best drug ever,saved
my life.
Debbie Winn
You've obviously never done ecstasy.
+ 0.20$
I wanna try it ? Any one willing to send to England
@@kinglouis6974 Ask your doctor for it. They'll give you the authority to walk into the pharmacy.
Ask for the brand name Prozac, the pharmacy might try to trick you into buying the generics.
Randomfully Wonderful no mate ive got more chance of meeting trump
And Elon musk at a hoe house
Would you send me some pls 🇬🇧
I’ll pay 💰 your time
On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity.
I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity.
prozac save my life, it is virtual miracle for me
Irfan Nizamani makes u infertile
what do you mean infertility?
Have you ever thought that maybe it wasnt the drug? It was really a placebo effect which made you feel hope, that hope in return allowed you to strive for more.
Irfan Nizamani the only antidepressant that "god" intended was mushrooms, dmt, lsd, mescsline and other psychedelics.
LittleRainGames god isn’t real
Prozac literally took me out of a 10 year long depression. I owe it everything.
Did it cause any weight gain?
you are giving me hope
@@thegoat7952 how are you feeling?
i got put on prozac when i was 13 years old because i was having mental breakdowns and suicidal thoughts, at first my dosage started at 20mg a day then it continually increased as my depression worsened. i was on prozac for less than a year (around 4 months), but my psychologist was always increasing my dosage when she wasn't seeing any improvement, which was probably a terrible idea. by the time i was taken off of it my dose was around 100mg, being on prozac made nothing better for me. i stopped feeling anything in a way, i was going through my days feeling like a numb bag of bones and while i was on it, i attempted suicide 3 times. i was still a kid and the medical professional who was supposed to care for my well being was pumping me full of drugs while ignoring my mother's concerns over the side effects i was experiencing.
Thankyou for sharing your experience. Doctors and psychiatrists play down or even flat out deny these kinds of experiences on antidepressants. It's very important for people to share their unbiased, unfiltered experiences of antidepressants online so that people can be aware of what could potentially happen to them.
this is crazy I been taking Prozac for a week now I swear i love it
yeah ive been on it for 3 weeks and feel pretty good. My anxiety got worse though but apparently it gets worse before it gets better for some people although I feel allot less down. I'm glad to hear its working for you btw
You won't know for 2 weeks at least. Most say not till you've used the first bottle.
Phil Rabe yeah you won't even really feel it ever. That's the point. You should feel better without realizing it
demonta baker how are you now?
A week? That's not long enough to 'feel' it. Nice try. It's recommend most medication doesn't start to really take affect until two weeks.
Seeing this made me remember to take my prozac 😂
Lol seeing your comment just reminded me to take my Zoloft 😂 thanks
Daniele Rose the withdrawals are awful
remember kids: people might dissapoint you in life, but antidepressants never will.
These videos make a difference, you can see the human bonding by the comment sections. This is one of the few videos where the comment sections have been so clean. Thank you Commenters and the Washington post. Continue making more videos and informing the world of real issues. I also want to compare this informational video to how much the news have become tabloids, but I don't want this comment to make the comment section more toxic, so I'll reference it like this.
As someone who has taken Prozac for several years of my life, I can safely say that it’s not that useful, especially on its own. For depression, it can help stabilize your mood and it’s more effective for some people than others but it lost its effectiveness for me and coming off of it was a horrible experience, I relapsed and was far more depressed than even when I first attempted suicide which is why my doctor prescribed it to me in the first place. It is a relatively safe drug, which this video never even gets into, but it’s true effectiveness lies in conjunction with therapy and lifestyle changes
I'm falling over laughing for twenty minutes off of that most incredible cliche, the woman PMSing screaming "did you take my keys?" Killed it.
"do you suffer from ear touching your pillow when you sleep? well we got a pill for that!"
Moron!
I just laughed so hard right at that moment. That's amazing.
This prescribed medication helped me. I had other options, but Prozac has been around a lot longer and being aware of my naivete, I figured it was better to choose a medication that's been around longer and studied longer.
It really does help stabilise mood. It doesn't make you happy, but allows you to function again when you exhibit clinical catatonic depression.
It’s definitely not for anyone who is bipolar; it can drive them off the deep end. I’ve seen a close friend absolutely loose it because his doctor gave him Prozac to treat depression, not realizing he was bipolar.
Reality check. I was in a bad marriage, which caused me to have suicidal thoughts, the man in question was manipulative to the max. In the same way that oppressive men did to outspoken wives in the 1850’s (laudenum), the whole Prozac kept from leaving an abusive marriage. It made me feel like a zombie, quit after a few months. Took me another ten years and some really good psychologists that enabled me to leave him. Even then he was trying to convince our family doctor that I was just “depressed” and needed some meds, she disagreed, and said I seemed to be a very happy person (I had already started the process of getting him out of my life.
Prozac is working for me
Not for me
I still wanna die
Prozac has kept me alive many years
All medication works differently on different people. I see some people in the comments state that Prozac had the exact opposite effect that it was supposed to. However in my case it was a miracle drug.
I use to see Dr Kramer, and he was a wonderful Dr. He listened when I was at my lowest and was willing to look at alternatives to Prozac when it didn’t help and was one of the first to suggest an autism diagnosis for me. I miss working with him.
Prozac worked really well for my mood and depression but effected my eating habits and my body in a lot of negative ways. Had to stop taking it
Prozac as a whole seems too commercialized to have come from a place of good faith
I want to read peter kramer's book! it looks very interesting and i like the concept . the title he chose for the book was alluring and interesting. way to go doc!
i was prescribed prozac when i was barely 12 years old, for “depression “. I wouldn’t admit it to my dr at the time, but I was just living in an abusive environment and everyone just wanted me to stop crying so much. of course it didn’t help me , so I stopped taking it after a short while to appease my family . But when I got a little older ~18 It was very useful for controlling my moods during my cycle . I wasn’t as randomly weepy , or angry . I eventually didn’t need that anymore as I controlled my cycles with BCP. For me , all other anti depressants I had tried would make me either angry or tired. Prozac helped me gain some normalcy !
I feel like this does well to capture how much Prozac was lauded and then demonized before evening out. I didn’t know that some psychiatrists considered it for really tough cases though! I always thought of it like a starter medication. When I was 18 I finally decided to get help for my depression and my pediatrician prescribed Prozac for me. It helped a little but ultimately I was still having intrusive thoughts and my ocd was still bad so eventually I was put on the maximum dose. In that very short time, I started to think about killing myself all the time. I didn’t want to die, it was just a repetitive intrusive thought that came at every opportunity. If I was in traffic I thought about getting out of my car and getting hit by another car.
I changed meds after that and through some trial and error and bad therapists I’m finally on three meds that work really well. I can drive and hold down a job now. I don’t succumb to the compulsive rituals as much anymore and I don’t hate myself. I still have bad days. But not as many. I can function which is ultimately what ssris are meant to help you do. Not make you happy the way Prozac marketed themselves, but to help people that cannot function under their depression, capable of doing basic stuff to live a normal life.
What medication did you switch to? Are you still on it?
Prozac made me go onto autopilot. I wasn't in control. Three years later when I "woke up" I had been hospitalized and in tons of toxic relationships.
I’ve been taking Prozac for 20 years I started on 20 mg and now I’m on 80 mg a day
Linda Stonehouse I take 80 mg a day too!
Have you gained weight while on Prozac?
I've taken a generic version of Prozac for several years, I take one in the morning and I feel great. It really works for me.
What’s it’s name?
@@styopaa.z Thank you! 😊
I've been on prozac for about a week now and I notice positive change. Of course, a week of taking it doesn't change much, but I already don't wake up every morning, feeling like i want to die like I used to. It's been years since I last woke up and was excited for the day. I'm so thankful my psychiatrist put me on it. Of course it's not for everyone but for me it's an amazing tool to finally help me get my life together.
Seeing the doctor on his laptop in the 90s versus his apple laptop today was great
Prozac saved my life.... I would be homeless without it
yes because having depression is so cool and trendy😍😍not being able to get out of bed in the morning is just so hip
PMDD is real and it's scarier than all hell.
Well, PMDD probably isn't "scarier than all hell" (pretty close), but it sure is a HUGE problem!!! Especially for times when the only ones to explode on were my children; my poor babies. That's why my doctor put me on Xanax, and I hate that crap!!!! So, my doc just switched me to Prozac instead and I am thinking it's really helpful for PMDD!!!! I'm excited actually to be free from demon me!!!! ;)
+Imarriedhis Eviltwin Glad to hear you're doing better. I get extremely suicidal so that's why it's really scary for me.
I'm sorry, I forgot it's prescribed for depression as well. I didn't mean to make light of you. Please forgive me.
it's weird how they said "suddenly there was a pill for problems we didn't know we had" and started talking about restless leg syndrome, which causes nasty insomnia and can feel incredibly maddening. and also portrayed pmdd as something fake, when it is very real and generally lacking in awareness. jeez, it was actually a relief to have a label and a treatment for a malignant problems. you kinda can tell these editors have never been sick
It so is! And you know if you have it; or at least you know something's wrong and that your "PMS" is really different from your girlfriends or family.
I definitely am one of those who became more like themselves rather than becoming like a new person with an SSRI (not Prozac). It was like I had had amnesia, and suddenly I remembered who I used to be. I was someone who could live in the moment and enjoy myself. I had a sense of humor. I could laugh things off.
It didn’t solve all my problems, but it greatly improved my quality of life, and SSRI adjustments and related meds have helped through major episodes.
Everybody responds to different medications differently. So yes, some may have very negative effects. But I believe this class of drugs has saved many lives, and improved the lives of many others.
Sally Villarreal nope it's all in your head
Prozac almost took my life
How much did you take?
I used it as a teenager, it was masterpiece
prozac was a god-send in my life. I struggled with depression and anxiety for a LONG time, and had tried other meds that either didn't work or had terrible side effects. it was a total miracle for me.
I was on Prozac for years. I was fifteen years old and taking 60 milligrams every day. Once off of the meds I crashed. I’m get my diagnosis changed, yes it did change me, for worse
Did you gain any weight while on Prozac?
I think ads for prescription meds should be banned.
It takes so long to work 4-6 weeks in my case, but it did help my depression, and I even smiled😁 I had a hard time going to sleep tho.
MsGeigei do you sleep better then after 4 weeks ?
Feels like this could have been a longer video.
When I wake up in the morning, I'm 'ok' to be alive, thanks to Prozac. That woman at the start said it best. I still suffer anxiety and eating problems. But at least I'm no longer suicidal.
I had horrible side effects from Prozac. I had been adhd but never violent. Prozac made me loose my sanity. I had no control over my emotions. I raged nonstop, couldn't stop. I hurt people. Finally I figured out it might be this drug, because I wasn't like that before. I stopped taking it and I finally regained control of myself. It was a nightmare. I have no idea who the person was that Prozac turned me into.
Sounds like you had something else that wasn’t depression :(
I was a victim of prozac. While on it i was an emotional zombie. While withdrawing from it, I was a wreck. Paxil was almost as bad.
SSRIs got rid of all my suicidal thoughts and plans
My parents motorhome back in the day had the license plate “R Prozac”. You ain’t kidding
I don't get it. The doctor told me I need to 'stabilise' my mood. But I told her I feel NOTHING. I feel EMPTY. How does feeling MORE numb help me when I take Prozac? By the way its making me really drowsy and yet I am being FORCED to take it. Like with it, I just want to lie in bed all day and night, not feeling like getting up. How is this helping?
rosacute jenniely : omg, sameeee. I think you might be bipolar, like me...
Adderall is the only thing that will help you. i felt the same