SSRI
Articles tagged SSRI cover when this care approach may fit, what to expect, tradeoffs, safety questions, and how it can connect with therapy, medication, or lifestyle work.
Three Months In on an SSRI: What to Expect
If you're reading this, you're probably somewhere between week eight and week twelve on an SSRI, you're trying to figure out whether it's working, and you…
Jun 19, 2026
The SSRI Waiting Game
The hardest part of starting an SSRI is the lag. Side effects can show up fast, while the benefit takes weeks.
May 16, 2026
SSRIs: what they actually do
SSRI stands for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and the name basically describes the trick.
Nov 16, 2025
What Medication Can and Can’t Do
People come in wanting a pill that fixes their life. They don't say it that way.
Nov 1, 2025
Prozac (Fluoxetine)
Prozac came out in 1987. Almost forty years later it's still on the short list of SSRIs I reach for, and not because of nostalgia.
Oct 20, 2025
Fluvoxamine (Luvox)
Fluvoxamine is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the Zoloft/Lexapro/Prozac class) nobody thinks of first, and that's sort of a shame,…
Sep 9, 2025
Bipolar Disorder, Explained
Bipolar treatment goes wrong in the first appointment more often than in any later one. Get the diagnosis wrong and every prescription after it is wrong.
Aug 27, 2025
Anxiety, Explained
The public conversation about anxiety treatment and the clinical reality have drifted about as far apart as it's possible for two conversations on the…
Jul 7, 2025
Low T vs. Depression: What You Actually Need to Know
Guys come in convinced they have low T when they're actually depressed, and other guys come in convinced they're depressed when their testosterone is in…
Jun 25, 2025
Long-term med use realities (20-year horizons)
The honest answer to "can I stay on this medication for the rest of my life" is: we don't fully know what happens at 30 or 40 years out, because…
Jun 22, 2025
Antidepressant withdrawal vs relapse: distinguishing
Guys stop their antidepressant, feel terrible a couple weeks later, assume the depression is back, restart the medication. Sometimes that's right.
Jun 20, 2025
Depression, Explained
Depression ≠ sadness. Sadness has a thing it's about. Depression doesn't, it just follows you around like a Dementor sucking the light out of the world.
Jun 19, 2025