If you need help don’t get spooked by the parent commentator. Help exists.
Some people like their SSRI's, some people kill themselves soon after starting that class of drug [0] (presumably due to the serotonin syndrome [1]).
> My life was saved by Lexapro, an SSRI.
My friend told me about how Lexapro seemed to help her. But it also didn't keep her from relapsing on cocaine, a pro-dopamine drug. The MAOIs are much more useful for a cocaine-like boost that doesn't make them crash after 20 minutes than the SSRIs, which take weeks/months before most people notice any benefit, and which help some people by helping them "not care" about their life situation.
20 years ago teh scientists figured out that it's not extra serotonin that helps people, but the SSRI's effects on neurosteroids: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/1999/11/5059/scientists-identify-n...
> If you need help don’t get spooked by the parent commentator. Help exists.
My observation is that some people don't actually get the help they need, and deteriorate from defective prescriptions. My friend needed help getting her drinking under control, but all she got was medically assaulted with anti-dopamine drugs (so-called "antipsychotics").
The tragedy is that we actually know how to help people. Some of the MAOIs are much better drugs to use temporarily while helping people deal with "stress".
[0] https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/10/11-9-million-paxil-suic... - I think the damages were overturned on appeal.