Does the post-SSRI syndrome affect previous psychological disorders?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 2:49 pm
We know how post ssri syndrome can be so severe that it can wipe out one's emotional, affective, creative world, cognitive abilities, things that seem to characterize one's personality even in its most 'spiritual' sense.
And yet, I know a boy who has severe and complex post ssri syndrome but continues to have the disabling obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) he had before.
A girl who suffered from psychosis, paranoia, and hallucinations has severe post antipsychotic syndrome but still has psychosis, paranoia, and hallucinations.
I imagine that personality disorders that rely on emotional susceptibility or anxiety such as borderline and avoidant are greatly blunted by a post ssri syndrome with emotional numbness and anhedonia.
I wonder if a panic attack disorder that was chronic turns out to be "cured" or not by having contracted post ssri syndrome, ditto for bipolar disorder and the other chronic disorders.
Perhaps an investigation along these lines might suggest that the alterations that cause the symptoms of post ssri syndrome do not rest on the same ground/do not touch the same networks that cause mental disorders.
And yet, I know a boy who has severe and complex post ssri syndrome but continues to have the disabling obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) he had before.
A girl who suffered from psychosis, paranoia, and hallucinations has severe post antipsychotic syndrome but still has psychosis, paranoia, and hallucinations.
I imagine that personality disorders that rely on emotional susceptibility or anxiety such as borderline and avoidant are greatly blunted by a post ssri syndrome with emotional numbness and anhedonia.
I wonder if a panic attack disorder that was chronic turns out to be "cured" or not by having contracted post ssri syndrome, ditto for bipolar disorder and the other chronic disorders.
Perhaps an investigation along these lines might suggest that the alterations that cause the symptoms of post ssri syndrome do not rest on the same ground/do not touch the same networks that cause mental disorders.