My roommate recently told me about how their therapist has been trying to start them on anti-depressants.
Thing is, they have a pretty bad diet, get zero exercise and have an erratic sleep schedule. They also smoke tons of weed and are currently on HRT. (!cuteandvalid any input on if that stuff makes you depressed?). Some positives are they have a very good job and work long hours, and have a supportive girlfriend.
Anyway I want to try and get through to them that all of the (negative stuff) above is likely the cause of their depression, and anti-depressants are a band-aid on a bullet-hole. Unfortunately I feel like I won't be able to get through to them, since I feel like anything I say will come across as me trying to moral-lecture them or telling them how to live their life.
I know this isn't really a serious forum, but if you guys have any experience with this and could maybe come up with an approach that I could take to explain this stuff to them i'd appreciate it, since I want to try and save someone from the SSRI-zombie apocalypse.
Thanks. 
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all I got is this
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I do feel noticeably happier when I do my boiling water dance as I wait for my water to boil
I'll trust the science on this one
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!besties, have you taken the dance pill?
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I sent them the chart without the tweet - really good input thank you.
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!followers !pings dancechads rise up
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I don't see meth on this chart, seems like bullshit to me
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Can someone ssripill me?, because everything I've seen about the fricking evidence for SSRIs makes them look like psudoscience.
like they barely have a fricking significant effect and psychs all say they work but oooh you gotta wait a fricking few months for them to kick in and each type of ssri only works for some people so you gotta try multiple types
like I'm not saying their fake, but this is fricking exactly what we'd expect to see if ssris are fricking fake
!schizomaxxxers !mottezans
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And they make it so you can't c*m bc lol why would depressed people want to feel anything
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Sounds like a fricking big plus for !edgelords
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Skill issue, I've been cumming more forcefully than ever
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Next time I'm with a bpd foid who says her meds make her not c*m, I'll make sure she knows it's because she sucks it's not the medicine
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Yeah dumb r-slur lmfao
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many people say it really works, many perople say it does nothing, a small fraction says it ruined their lives
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basically, oldschool antidepressants like nardil fricking worked but doctors don't like to prescribe them because they have much more hardcore side effects and dietary restrictions and stuff. so they were quick to take the bait if someone told them there was an alternative, and that's how SSRIs got popular.
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the first SSRI I took worked for me, within a week I felt different. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're unironically suicidal.
They "flatline" your mood, so you stop feeling like shit all the time but it's also hard to care about anything on it.
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Theyre effective, but about 30-40% of its effectiveness was due to the therapist/scientist taking an interest in the lives of the people they prescribed them to.
Bike haters vindicated yet again
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SSRIs only work if you have depression and an uncontrollable anger disorder. There's a specific set of parameters that make SSRIs work but because people want an easy fix they'd rather take pills not meant for them than improve themselves. I'd say MAYBE .05% of the population had the necessary brain chemistry for them
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https://socalsunrise.com/risks-of-mixing-marijuana-and-antidepressants/
In general, weed is a natural depressant, not as strong as alcohol but one nonetheless. Why are they taking weed? If they can get off weed, they prob won't feel the need for an antidepressant.
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Depressant just means it slows brain activity not that they cause depression. But weed can cause problems with antidepressants for some other reason I don't understand tbh.
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This is for alcohol but weed probably has similar issues.
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It's probably that being an alcoholic is depressing rather than a chemical cause
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I get moody and slightly depressed for a few days after drinking alcohol. (no it's not from hangover symptoms)
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If they're on HRT they should definitely take prozac or zoloft or whatever will kill the spark inside them so that they stop acting weird for attention
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Therapists love to prescribe antidepressants because it practically does their job for them.
It'll cover up the symptoms of unhappiness without actually handling the root cause.
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Tell them there's a 1-2% chance they'll start sleepwalking. But they won't know that they're sleepwalking because they've never experienced it before, they just notice that somebody has randomly picked up and moved objects around different rooms of the house while they were asleep. Then they get weirder and weirder dreams to the point where they don't know when they're awake and when they're asleep. Then they finally realize what's going on when they get blamed for stuff they did while they were asleep.
If you're gonna take a 1/50 chance of that happening, and God knows what other side effects the doctor will never warn you about, you'd better be pretty fricking desperate. Like about-to-jump-off-a-bridge desperate.
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Yep, my GI wanted me to get on some to help with dealing with my medical issue. I decided instead to switch my GI, lol.
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Dear
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if u go on antidepressants
@Garry_Chess will sneak into ur house at night and sew another 2-4 peepees onto you
he's a doctor and thats allowed
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Antidepressants are foid-coded behaviour, congratulations to your friend for passing mentally.
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he is a lost cause, just give up
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At the risk of sounding like JK Growling, this. I dunno, maybe HRT is the right thing to do for some people. But that has to be a very very small number. Not only would they need to be legit trans, they would also need actually benefit from getting HRT and having that benefit outweigh all the downsides. If he's on them, it indicates he's expecting pills to solve his problems way too much. It just doesn't work like that.
Except with adderall where it really does solve all your problems for a few years before you end up spinning completely out of control.
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Op makes it sound like a pooner
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No advice on antidepressants, but make sure they're on finasteride otherwise they really will need zoloft.
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tell them it can kill their s*x drive
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Not getting any anyway. They'd probably see this as a bizarre route to no-fap.
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I don't even know wtf that means anymore. Sure as heck isn't what it did in my day.
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these are the people who tell you to "have s*x incel" on reddit/twitter
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Crush estrogen pills into her cereal.
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I think
you should 
let them kill themselves.
Seriously.
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Testosterone is a great antidepressant.
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why convince your roommate to not go on anti-depressants if you're not convincing them to not do all the other bullshit?
They're already a drugcow at this point
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If you're not convincing them to stop the other shit, you're not trying to stop them from being depressed. You're trying to control their lifestyle.
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tell them they will feel like absolute shit for like 4-6 weeks, or I guess let them try. Stuff is mind poison
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SSRIs worked miracles for me, and I spent my 20s avoiding them because I didn't wanna be a normie consoomer maaaan (even though I constantly abused every other drug I could get my hands on). Let them try that shit if they want and make their own mind up. Trying to train a train to sleep at night and exercise just sounds like madness.
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