It has been explained to me that the SSRIs we have, have helped many to cope with depression. Just like any other disease, this chemical imbalance can also be treated. Someone with diabetes can be treated with insulin-and the same goes here. I agree it is a good thing we have SSRIs. But is it worth giving agains’t all the odds? -And why are doctors more dedicated towards their medicice than helping the individual?

I have social anxiety and when I take prozac it helps enormously. But the down fall is I get very very tired. I sleep almost the whole weekend and have no energy? The risks of sleeping so much are great- obesity, osteoporosis, developing depression on top of the anxiety, etc

But yet somehow my psychiatrist continues to prescribe prozac to me. I guess she too believes SSRIs are such a great asset to society- they must help treat everyone-who cares about the side-effects?

Why do psychiatrists believe so much in SSRIs that they forget to treat patients?
I didn’t write prozac caused obestity. Sleeping all the time could.