[notch898a]

I've also noticed family members benefit greatly from SSRIs. The main skeptic point I have is I've also seen them absolutely get wrecked by what appears to them as supply chain failures (usually because they're unable to get a meeting with a physician in time for refills and no physician will grant them a "bridge" to the next appointment). Of course as we saw during COVID, supply chain failures of all sorts are possible even when society has not collapsed.

From the outside one of the biggest concerns I have is one of these supply chain failures will put them in even worse place than had they never taken them, as I've personally seen their withdrawal symptoms look far worse than their unmedicated baseline. It seems to be a "better day to day" with the added risk of extreme withdrawal and associated risks during these few in a lifetime supply failures.

[kayodelycaon]

I would expect withdrawal from almost any medication for any chronic medical condition to be worse than baseline.

I’ve been allergic to milk for at least 15 years. I didn’t know it until 3 years ago. Now that I’m not ingesting a toxic substance every day, any accidental consumption has an extremely bad reaction.

It’s similar with my bipolar medication. Now that I don’t spend half of every day trying to not kill myself, I don’t have the tolerance I used to for paranoia, psychosis, and compulsive thoughts.

[notch898a]

There's a swath of people who (would) benefit from SSRIs that don't have day to day suicidal ideation, but might have it during the intense withdrawal process. The compounding issue is these supply chain disruptions by their very nature are correlated with stressful events like moves, natural disasters, foreign travel with unexpected extensions, etc.

This mere observation is not meant to advise someone for or against taking SSRIs.