Same here. I've seen multiple people after getting along fine for years get prescribed these meds, and within two years end up completely unable to function, hold a job, maintain composure during a conversation (breaking down in tears or becoming violently angry), cook their own food, etc. and need to talk to a therapist multiple times a week.

I'm sure "they're doing it wrong", but these were fully licensed doctors, prescribing drugs in an approved manner.

Comments like this caused me to not try them for waaay too long. Many many many lives have been positively transformed by them, too

This is a dangerous thing to spread, in my opinion. I have struggled with depression and anxiety for years, but during COVID it hit me like nothing I have ever experienced before. I would have probably died during COVID without finding a doctor to prescribe me medicine. And I don't think it would have been suicide. I would have probably become dehydrated and/or starved or become mal-nutritioned because it was a literal war to eat. I was having to wash down food with water after chewing it enough to swallow. (Note that I never had COVID, which would have been impossible having barely left my house during the first 9 months of 2020.) I couldn't sleep and would wake up wide awake and stressed at 4-5am. I couldn't relax. Was having panic attacks. It was pure and quite literal torture. My body and mind was literally on fire with stress activity. I honestly probably should have been hospitalized long before I finally got help.

While not fun working through the gamut of medicines, some of them finally pulled me through it all. It took almost a year to fully recover with dedication to the medicine and modifications of it and therapy.

If I didn't have a good family and primary care doctor, I guarantee I would have died in some manner unless hospitalized.

People need to realize there is danger to their words. Psychiatry is nowhere near perfect, but people are trying. It is an incredibly difficult thing to understand. But I feel people who speak against medicine have never truly experienced deep depression or anxiety. A panic attack can hit you sitting on the couch, and then by literally doing nothing, your heart rate can reach 200bpm and massive amounts of hormones making your chest and skin feel like it's burning, and next thing you're calling an ambulance because you think you aren't breathing.

Your comment is the most sensible I hav seen so far. I have seen lives utterly decimated by SSRIS. Suicides and murders caused by its side effects. Violent and suicidal tendencies are on the warning labels on many of these drugs.

They have been saving mine. My anxiety has been improving tremendous amounts since starting both an SSRI and therapy a few months ago. Therapy came a couple months after starting an SSRI, but I was already feeling a tangible improvement before even starting that.

Too tired to type a cogent paragraph. Just that I have seen lives saved by SSRIs.

Haven't you also seen lives saved by them? Because I sure have.