>>12845284>There are different reasons for why it might happen. You'll find it hard to enjoy things if you're depressed, but also if you're not getting a dopamine response for doing things you like (which may or may not happen on SSRIs)Yeah, this seemed to happen to me. I was prescribed it for anxiety. I wasn't depressed, but it made me depressed.
I know it's hard to discern one's own brain activity but I've used dozens of dopaminergics for years and engage in a lot of dopaminergic activity, so I've come to recognize the feeling of dopamine activity happening at least somewhere in my brain in some way. There's a distinct sort of sensation you can recognize.
After taking it for a few days, it seemed like I was getting much less dopamine response to things. The sensation I was expecting was gone. I felt listless and numb and dead inside, like a zombie. Horrible feeling. No libido, too.
I started tapering off that day, and soon experienced a dopamine rebound of some kind, with heightened dopamine response for the next week or so. Lots of extra-pleasurable libido, as well.
The combination of the dip and rebound seriously makes me think it was somehow downregulating, antagonizing, or otherwise fucking with dopamine receptors, reuptake, concentration, or something else. I'm glad I stopped taking it ASAP.
I was then prescribed Wellbutrin, which seemed like prolonging that dopamine rebound state for months. Total opposite of the SSRI; constant euphoria and ideation. It feels like a recreational drug, like a mild long-lasting stimulant, and that's pretty much pharmacologically what it is so that's not too surprising
