so they are menat to dull the 'sad' feeling, or panic attacks, or whatever, the BAD stuff

but, do they also dull the 'good' stuff too
like so you lose the ability to feel real happiness? or that loved up new relationship feeling? etc

do they just nake you feel one constant balanced out feeling all the time no matter what, so you never feel too happy and never feel too sad?

yes, that's how they made me feel anyway, i was on citalopram & then sertraline for 18 months.i could feel some stuff, but most of the time i didn't feel like myself at all and i found it really difficult to make decisions.i found a journal from when i was on them and it is not me speaking, i totally lost touch with myself, coming off them was scary because it was like stepping out of a bubble.

also, it's probably unrelated, but since i've been off them i find it difficult to write & get spaced out really easily.like, i used to be able to concentrate lots & i really enjoyed writing before i went on them, i still do but now i find it more difficult, and a lot of the time i feel really out of it.

in my veins runs more drugs than blood and i hate it

depends on what you take.

ive been off and on stuff since age 12. i recently started up again and i often feel quite numb to (almost) everything. however i do have rare moments of feeling REALLY good for no apparent reason. but like, stuff that use to bother me rolls off easier (ie when my heinous mother acts annoying/abuses me). it still bother me but not to the core like it used to pre prozac.

i dont like the feeling of being on them but i need it to be sociable and functioning. no amount of drugs or therapy will ever change a person from being their true self. it will merely mask what you are supposed to be

The first time i took Zoloft when i was about 13/14 till 18 years of age It worked for me perfectly and i felt great blah blah.
I started taking it again last year (200mgs) and this time it made me feel numb & drugged up. I was constantly drained & having to nap.
(I haven't taken it for about a month or so & although i feel dizzy i feel much more alert.)

I found that this time it didn't stop me from feeling sad- it pretty much just stopped me from feeling anything at all.

high fives for psychotropics

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dont do it. they suck. i just decided to quit lamicatal and lexapro cold turkey. i always felt in the middle. no emotion (which in some cases it can be good because i am hyper sensitive) idk i want to feel things again. i didnt feel much of that new relationship feeling with my current boyfriend like you talked about and it kinda makes me sad....

i've been on wellbutrin for 5 months now and i really only feel 2 emotions: anger and happiness. there's no sad for me anymore, unless i do have a bad episode of depression. but i guess it depends on the person and which antidepressant you take.

Quitting cold turkey is not a good idea, even if you shouldn't be on the medications. Please talk to your doctor about weaning off safely!

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Yeah that's the whole point of taking anti depressentants talking with your doctor and telling them how you feel. It's supposed to be a very supportive process. Find a good dr.

but don't take them with grapefruit juice, there's something in grapefruit juice that neutralizes? antidepressants or something..the dr didnt tell me that. damn it.

This was my experience as well. I also found that when I stopped taking them it was as if I was being flooded with all the feelings I couldn't feel when I was on them. As if they had just been pushed back the whole time and were then coming to the surface all at once.

Oh, I was on zoloft (my first anti-depressant) when I met Mr. Wildwoman. We started dating not long after it kicked in, and I could feel the falling in love. Actually, I'm not entirely sure when the euphoria from not being miserable (and yes, I felt that) stopped and the euphoria from falling in love started.

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Maybe the falling in love was just the pillz.

No, no.... it was three: angry, happy, and HORNY

That was 13 years ago this summer, and I haven't always been on pills during that time.

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I take amitriptyline and it doesn't dull my emotions at all really. I've stopped feeling so agonisingly awful that every moment is a living agony (always a plus side) and I sleep a lot better and don't have panic attacks anymore (although I think thats more of me learning to tell my brain to shut up). But I still feel sad if something bad happens, happy if something good is going on, loved up, excited, nervous, angry- everything. I just feel like I did before I got ill. Its great. Ami is a much under-rated drug, especially since its the only one that when the BMJ performed an analysis of all the RCT, was the only one that actually performed better than a placebo, of all the anti-depressants.

yeah, it was a huge fucking shock for me to suddenly start feeling stuff again, it took ages to adapt.tbh, if i'd known the effects it would have, i would never have let them put me on antidepressants.