Yeah I should’ve been more respectful of the fact that different meds do different things for different people, but I’ve been on almost every SSRI that’s out there at some point since I was 13 years old. I’ve never felt “numb” physically. That’s what booze and opiates are for. I’m just tired of people thinking that…

So maybe I shouldn’t have said there’s “no way” it felt like that for her, but yes- high profile comments about how SSRIs make you numb does lead directly to the kinds of conversations I’ve had to engage in for my whole life- where people who don’t take meds hear quotes like Drew’s, and proceed to tell me that I need…

Yeah, that really threw me. I’ve had some truly bizarre side effects from SSRIs (one actually made me feel constantly stoned, oddly. As much as I enjoy being stoned, it’s not fun when you can’t control it), so maybe Lexapro does that to her, but actual physical numbness is a pretty alarming effect.

Well, as any psychiatrist worth a damn will tell you, you really need to take it for longer than that. The desired effects only really start coming in after a couple of weeks. I was a complete wreck the first month or so. After 8 weeks though, I noticed that I had just spent an entire day not contemplating suicide.…

You can almost sing that second paragraph like it’s a Gilbert and Sullivan bit.

Neurochemistry is ridiculously complicated. Go figure!

I’ve been on generic Zoloft for a while now. It’s helped quite a bit with my anxiety (the depression has been kept under control with therapy more than anything else), and it’s a heck of a lot better than the Effexor I had been taking. Those brain zaps were…

Lexapro was the absolute scariest medication experience we have had with my bipolar teen. Within weeks of starting it, she was being admitted to inpatient. I know medication regimens are tricky and it's hard to find the right combo but that experience really freaked me out. She was completely detached from us at…

Huh. Lexapro did nothing for me. Just nothing. Just goes to show you how different brain chemistry is and how hard it is to nail down a depression/anxiety treatment that actually works, I guess.

I think it's sort of fascinating how these affect people so differently. Zoloft definitely slowed me down but it removed the seventh ring of Hades depression I was born with. Best wishes on trying something new!

I’m on year ~6 of of being on 20mg of Lexapro, but I am almost certainly twice Drew’s weight.  I went up to 30mg for about 6 months after a couple deaths decided to chain themselves together, and had a few days where I approached, from a distance, the level that Drew appears to just permanently exist on? V jealous. 

I used to take Lexapro and it never made me act anything like that. It just made me able to participate in all of the inane small talk people engage in in social settings. It also killed my libido and made me a cheap drunk :-/

Rich’s recap and video snippets are plenty to convince me that this is not the show for me. I like Drew when she’s on talk shows and all but this is a lot.

Lexapro saved my life. I’m on 20mg. Hoping to be the “squirrel in traffic” like she is, someday. lol

When I tried Lexapro it gave me a terrifying side effect called akathisia. Took days to wear off. I would not wish that on...okay, I would wish it on Trump, let’s be honest.

When I first started Celexa (Lexapro’s shorter-acting parent), I felt like that. 

Amber Ruffin does everything better than all of us.

Great, thanks Drew Barrymore, for helping to reinforce everyone’s incorrect assumption that SSRIs “numb” you and actually make you unaware of reality. If she actually took Lexapro, there’s no way she’d describe it that way. And now there’s even more people I’m gonna have to convince that just because I’m on an SSRI…

Yes, if that is how I felt when I was on it, I would still be on it. 

Um, Drew? Sweetie? As someone who takes 20 mg a day, that’s not Lexapro.

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