Is using antidepressants a looksmin? (19 years old)

[AllesScheiße]

Will it lower T and cause wrinkles?

 

[Zer0/∞]

Taking any form of medication is low T.

 

[BearBoy]

Just stick to beer and alcohol

 

[evap0]

Just stick to beer and alcohol

beer and alcohol

 

[jfcage]

It's a looksmax if they reduce anxiety and inhibition.

 

[Deleted member 16677]

It can affect growth slightly but at 19 you're done anyways most likely

 

[Preoximerianas]

Is it an SSRI? Stay away from them.

 

[qwertz]

Is it an SSRI? Stay away from them.

why

 

[Preoximerianas]

why

They’re straight poison, i’ll link a thread about them later.

 

[Romeo1111]

im on some and makes me more neutral im never really happy or sad but have probaly helped me get more girls

 

[Deleted member 17308]

It's the last resort, do anything you can including therapy that actually works like CBT, before going down this rabbit hole

 

[Preoximerianas]

Alright, I found the thread.

The Dark Side of Serotonin (MEGATHREAD)

The final nail to serotonin's coffin ITT! I hope that with providing this as a whole it aids in learning in effective way about serotonin. If you little time, you may just can scan through this post, but if you have the time and are critical, the actual studies are just two mouse click away...

looksmax.org

Antidepressants, or SSRIs, work by increasing the amount of serotonin in the brain by blocking their reuptake by neurotransmitters. I had been prescribed 10 mg of Fluoxetine to treat my GAD, didn't do much so the dosage was bumped to 20 mg. But after finding this thread I stopped using the stuff immediately.

Bless @kjsbdfiusdf for making that unfathomably high IQ thread.

 

[Danish_Retard]

It can lead to weight gain. Personally my appetite increased like crazy.

I feel like I'm starving despite having eaten like an hour earlier. I can't even tell if they're even doing anything for my depression or it's just me reworking my life that's making me feel better.

If you have the choice I'd stay away. It's theorized that most of the effects are placebo anyway.

Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect

Antidepressants are supposed to work by fixing a chemical imbalance, specifically, a lack of serotonin in the brain. Indeed, their supposed effectiveness is the primary evidence for the chemical imbalance theory. But analyses of the published data and ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Why risk all of these side effects just for the small chance that you're one of the few who actually have a chemical imbalance instead of external forces making you depressed.