I’m on a fairly high dose of duloxetine. I take 90 mg a day. Here’s what I can tell you.
My brain had the opposite reaction hers did.
I had been so emotionally void for so many years and the only emotion I had felt in so long was apathy that when I started antidepressants I was like a child learning what joy and anger and sadness and boredom felt like. My sex drive went up and I bought sex toys and tried to find porn to get off to. I have a friend who I’ll fool around with and when we get together, we go from acting like the middle aged adults we to acting like horny teenagers in bed.
But it took me more than five years of very hot work to get here. And I wasn’t over emotional, my emotions were stunted. So maybe my reaction is not the norm. But be patient. It a long road and it’s exhausting and frustrating along the way. Give her time and understanding.
No If anything I should preserve it. Your story is not her story and there is a possibility that she is lying. And it's incredibly unfair to drag this man though that nonsense. Yes DV is a complex multivariant problem but that doesn't make women stupid or helpless. She knows she's doing wrong and having an emotional reaction to trauma can be the reason but it's not an excuse for shit behavior.
After reading the first question my first thought was see if she can switch her meds up to Wellbutrin which is a NDRI.
I’m on a fairly high dose of duloxetine. I take 90 mg a day. Here’s what I can tell you.
My brain had the opposite reaction hers did.
I had been so emotionally void for so many years and the only emotion I had felt in so long was apathy that when I started antidepressants I was like a child learning what joy and anger and sadness and boredom felt like. My sex drive went up and I bought sex toys and tried to find porn to get off to. I have a friend who I’ll fool around with and when we get together, we go from acting like the middle aged adults we to acting like horny teenagers in bed.
But it took me more than five years of very hot work to get here. And I wasn’t over emotional, my emotions were stunted. So maybe my reaction is not the norm. But be patient. It a long road and it’s exhausting and frustrating along the way. Give her time and understanding.
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No If anything I should preserve it. Your story is not her story and there is a possibility that she is lying. And it's incredibly unfair to drag this man though that nonsense. Yes DV is a complex multivariant problem but that doesn't make women stupid or helpless. She knows she's doing wrong and having an emotional reaction to trauma can be the reason but it's not an excuse for shit behavior.