Psychiatric Medication Side Effects Tier List

[@nethlexcitron]

pov: you have to deal with all of the side effects of a single tier for a day. what's your choice? which tier would you choose?

[@frankrosen4915]

Tldr please

[@panchoarmariorodriguez6975]

SS so I can die

[@wowt3436]

all of them, i want to escape this existential nightmare

[@jamieohjamie]

I already deal with everything in D tier.

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Who tf would want like C or D tier

[@joshuaweingart4743]

There’s a little known one that I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing with different medications that others don’t really talk about: the sensation of drowning. And I’m not talking anxiety, panic-attack breathing-getting-heavy drowning, it is literally akin to the sensation you feel when you’re underwater and you desperately need to take a breath except all the time. Really enjoyable.

[@nekosaiyajin8529]

That's really cool, would like to try it out. Do you know which "medications" might give me that?!?!?

[@MarianaSilva-kh4io]

That sound like nightmare material! How would you rank it?

[@aneutralopinion1712]

Holy fuck that sounds like the one of the worst things you can feel. I have trauma around choking so that seems like the worst physical feeling.

[@danielwoods3896]

So like mustard gas but all the time? Ouch

[@yochibo8091]

@@nekosaiyajin8529 like 50gs of shrooms should do the job

[@angryyordle4640]

As an epileptic I can 100% recommend seizures. It's super fun to just occasionally out of nowehere waking up in a hospital

[@_Pyroon_]

Have you considered ketosis? I've heard very good results from that

[@frostynoms5517]

Diabetic ketoacidosis is really fun. Sleepy for a couple weeks, feeling terrible, sudden pain. Sit on floor of bathroom. Uh oh, hospital time! I thought it was a nightmare haha. Good times.

[@yourbookisexceptionallylou4906]

it's a fun little cutscene! who knows where you'll wake up next ;p

[@DecrepitJanus]

Hey you! youre finally awake! You were trying to cross the border right? walked right into that imperial ambush

[@sieglindeochs7428]

Yes for me the Seizures feel like I`m on drugs so fun YEah...

[@KazeN64]

I'm glad he's taken all of them. Like the authenticity on this channel!

[@aresppl]

Never expected to see the well respected and incredibly talented Super Mario 64 mapper to watch JrEg

[@patrioticwhitemail9119]

@@aresppl every based content creator is subscribed to JrEg

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@aresppl There's two kinds of people in this world, People who watch Jreg and people who don't. I don't count Centerists as people.

[@kyle9401]

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 would this mean anyone who watches JrEg automatically loses their centrist status if they had that status in the first place?

[@micanful-m6u]

This crossover between sm64 and schizo-youtube pleases me

[@redspade96]

You forgot about a top tier side effect of a common bipolar/BPD/epilepsy medication (lamotrigine) which can cause a potentially fatal necrotic skin condition called Steven Johnson Syndrome. It's relatively easy to avoid if you titrate the medication properly but if you develop it and don't get it treated your skin will start to fall off so I'd put it at A tier

[@angryyordle4640]

pairs very well with Akathisia I guess.

[@indoor_vaping]

yoooo lamotrigine club

[@NootalieWalf]

Hell yeah I loved getting the SJS warning every time I picked it up at the pharmacy when I was on it. Such a nice chat

[@pyruvicac.id_]

Sounds kinda SS to me, but you do you I guess.. Respect!!

[@pyruvicac.id_]

@@angryyordle4640 i died

[@sean7269]

I, as a paranoid schizophrenic, prone to bouts of delirium, can't wait for your video pairing philosophies with psychological disorders. Great content!

[@JREG]

Your psychosis has predicted the future! Look out for my coded messages to you in my following videos

[@ownerofastolengun]

I’m in your wall

[@vivivivivi]

I'm in your wall

[@DLDLDLDLDLDLD]

I'm in two of your walls, and sometimes some others around your house. But never only one.

[@ownerofastolengun]

I’m in the ceiling now

[@ellaebert9020]

Lactation in females is apparently a side effect of some antidepressants, because somehow they raise prolactin levels. Because prolactin is also high in pregnant women, it also prevents people from having a normal menstrual cycle. My psychiatrist did not see this side effect until I experienced it, so they thought that my high prolactin was caused by a brain tumor and I wasted tons of money on MRIs and blood tests! It did stop once I went off the medication though, so solid low A tier

[@potato2248]

thats a positive effect lol. free milk

[@NootalieWalf]

Risperidone. Yep. Soggy bra club woop woop

[@GravityBouncer]

@@NootalieWalf the struggle to be healthy :’)

[@CrypticLizardPoetry]

Yeah this checks out, but they dont bother to tell you the side effects (like at all) so you can imagine the confusion 🤨

[@seraphimme]

Doesn't even need to be just females, under sometimes it can happen to males too. In some cases it isn't caused by medication either, starving can also cause it.

[@theayys951]

Cognitive impairment should be S tier. When it comes to most of the others side effects, if they occur, you know that they occur. What makes Cognitive impairment amazing is that, in some cases, you can't be even sure if it is happening to you or not, and whether it is side effect of the drug, or just symptom tiredness, or any one of many other possible explanations!

[@wesleyc38491]

Hdvy to go hi gf ryvfedygdr !

[@OsirusHandle]

maybe you were dumb all along and are only now realising it! :)

[@Hans-um6lu]

@@OsirusHandle Lmao, i fucking experienced. These pills are the troll face of pills

[@OsirusHandle]

@@Hans-um6lu paranoia/doubt is sometimes a good sign, feels so shit tho can sympathise ;_;

[@Hans-um6lu]

@@OsirusHandlethx. i have been on this shit for 4 years. never liked any small bit of it.

[@zazzymazzy]

as a mentally ill person who has been taking meds for 14+ years, this is great content. maybe one day i will take ALL the meds, just like you! you're truly inspiring

[@mariyannuism]

You know what's the best part? some of these (like Akathisia) appear AFTER you stop taking the medication or if you discontinue it too quickly. Some people resort to using electronic scales to measure literal pill crumbs in order to taper off without dying.

[@BL-sd2qw]

Tapering strips should be sold. Am I right?

[@lydiamulfinger6781]

I need something like this for getting of citalopram

[@mariyannuism]

@@BL-sd2qw Absolutely. Most people resort to compounding pharmacies.

[@ezrahuszti7764]

Duude I did that the second time I tried to quit paxil (first attempt I tapered way too fast and was bedridden from withdrawal symptoms for a week before I started taking it again). I was breaking my pills into literal dust and taking just a few grains because I was so terrified of going into withdrawal again, 100/10 S tier experience

[@xcheesyxbaconx]

@@ezrahuszti7764 I'm on my second taper of Paxil myself. Ended up getting an electronic scale and I'm literally doing 10mg a year, because the first taper went so badly.

[@chiyo-chanholocaust8143]

As someone said, one day we'll look back at this moment in history and be just as shocked at the treatment we have now for mental illness as we are at the treatments we had 100 years ago

[@barryjeanfontenot4502]

Nausea is the Joker of the symptom deck, because it’s either a minor inconvenience or it prevents you from being properly medicated for anything

[@bioac4373]

Thats so true when I was on effexor I would be gagging and dry heaving if i did something as simple as opening the fridge and smelling the cold fridge air. That (and the excessive sweating that was also a nightmare ) was the reason I went off that med. The nausea was triggered by almost random events or things, like looking at raw meat at the grocery store (even tho i eat meat lol) it was a nightmare

[@TheAlphabetPony011]

Well said! I was prescribed Lexapro while at a treatment facility for SI and after the first dose I spent the next 3 hours shaking and puking into the sink while the nurse made me clean up the puke with my bare hands. Next I was prescribed Effexor (which luckily for me was the sustained release version of the medication) and because it took so long to leave my body, I spent the next 3 days bedridden puking and dry-heaving into a small trashcan and couldn't keep anything including water down. There's nothing to get your mind of wanting to kill yourself quite like constant dry heaving and the sheer hopelessness of "treatment" making you sicker. My psychiatrist told me I was the first patient he's ever seen have this particular terrible reaction to SSRIs in his 40 years of practice. 10/10 would recommend!

[@Jesterisim]

@@bioac4373i know this is late but, how did you get off Effexor?

[@xtldc]

In one of Robert Sapolsky’s lectures, he talks about how overmedicating a schizophrenic patient will cause them to present symptoms of Parkinson’s and overmedicating a Parkinson’s patient will lead to schizo symptoms. Seems like they are opposite ends of a spectrum of problems with the dopaminergic system.

[@xtldc]

@J J I have a decent understanding of receptor biology/pharmacology, but am confused by something you said - if the overstimulated dopamine receptors are causing hallucinations, why would targeting serotonin stop them? If it’s a long explanation, feel free to just cite a relevant paper.

[@xtldc]

@J J thanks so much!

[@mayatrash]

That’s the exact reason why amphetamines cause psychosis and I also assume, it leads to Parkinson’s in the long run, when the dopaminergic system gets fried, but that’s just a gut feeling. Which is kinda chilling, since I take them for adhd. Wouldn’t take them if I wouldn’t do my PhD in physics. Kinda gay

[@xtldc]

Can confirm - drugs are necessary to make it through a PhD program. The list of drugs required will vary from person to person. I couldn’t have finished my PhD in chemistry without a lot of adderall, blow, and molly.

[@mayatrash]

@@xtldc Kinda reassuring, but still sad

[@reilly6564]

This video is very dangerous. Misinformation like this could seriously harm someone. Liked! 👍

[@remypetit1791]

Yay

[@borisp4177]

Protip: if you have suicidal ideation, try eating an Uno reverse card.

[@darkflightdreamer1698]

nice

[@memeboi3684]

That's probably the point

[@edenwirose]

this is the funniest comment I've read in my life

[@america134]

on a serious note, thank you for educating me more about these side effects than the doctors who treated me. didn't know what akathisia was until i saw this and immediately was able to put a name to what was happening to me for the several weeks i was taking meds.

[@turtle_food8774]

I learned about it here aswell

[@kittycatcuti]

I had akathisia as a side effect of mood stabilizers

[@metalwarrior6657]

Definitely had a light version in the past with SNRI

[@governm3nt697]

I have Tourette's, and my doctor prescribed me Prozac. It chills the nerves in my face and makes me feel generally happy. F TIER!

[@mariyannuism]

What's your dose? asking... for a friend

[@Moocow2003]

That's so rude of the prozac, I got prescribed it and it gave me tics instead! Easy A tier for the fun I had slamming my head into desks and throwing pens.

[@doritostrawberries]

happy pills :D

[@carnivault]

i got prescribed prozac for anxiety and depression, and it actually made my tourettes worse. interesting how it’s different for everyone

[@allforyou3805]

@@carnivault i have prozac for anxiety and depression and it's making me sweat so much and im having mood swings

[@Bobavakian42069]

Jreg hello a lot of first gen antipsychotics have lactation as a side effect and I read a study about their effects on autistic children who were given them, Risperidome specifically. Basically when you’re an autistic child and you have a lot of fits or anger, especially when you hurt yourself during them, your child psychs will throw antipsychotics at you. So there were just a bunch of autistic boys who started lactating bc of the terrible side effects of first gen antipsychotics.

[@mahmud7645]

🥵

[@32kuba32]

C Tier

[@ericdecker2914]

Autistic Lactation is my next band name.

[@irenoia]

It happened to me

[@francesthepossum1812]

Autistic hobbits’ milk

[@wesleyh7945]

Excessive sweating is kinda underrated. C tier at least. Your clothes are wet all the time. If anybody taps you on the shoulder or hug you or whatever they'll back off disgusted by you. That is if the above even happens, because you'll have a nasty odor on you all the time. Even if you cover by spraying deodorant all day, constant heavy deodorant smell is almost as bad and doesn't fully cover bad smells either. You have to wear very light color clothes. If you don't you can get giant white dry sweat stripes everywhere. (ofc you get them with light clothes but harder to see) Which is bad because lighter clothes generally show your fatass true weight better. Totally didn't have this in middle school. Just a random comment section expert.

[@Ethelgiggle]

Also you are losing a ton of water all the time. Even nicer when on lithium and peeing all the time too lol

[@sonicthehedgegod]

hate being asked why i’m sweating so much doing like, super basic tasks at work lol

[@Ethelgiggle]

@@sonicthehedgegod Yea or being soaked from casually walking 15 minutes to work

[@doritostrawberries]

i literally feel exhausted from sweating all day i have really bad anxiety

[@nataliasz852]

I also had this in middle school due to extreme social anxiety! I had to hand wash my t shirts everyday after school

[@bowlbs3631]

as a psychology major, this is an incredibly helpful guide.

[@angelicreinforcement3373]

Damn, I like the fact that you don't even question the validity of the video as learning material for a future psychiatrist!

[@angelicreinforcement3373]

@J J It takes a special kind of sigma grindset to self-attribute quotes. Respect +10

[@separatista]

@J J you're wrong. We do talk alot about side effects of medication, both for fisical and mental illness, and how that impacts the cognitive functioning and life quality of a person

[@Pokkin]

As a thing between the floorboards, this has been really helpful

[@DrMattPDO]

Ugh I do not miss undergrad “Psychology” majors pretending to be legitimate psychiatrists. In reality, I’d sooner ask a physics major about this topic than a psych major. They have zero knowledge.

[@blaidd5917]

My favortite possible side effect has always been just plain old "death". I love seeing it on the package insert, when trying a new medication. Bonus if there is no explaination given at all.

[@Moocow2003]

A close second is 'depression & suicidal thoughts' on antidepressants.

[@withlove4327]

thanks jreg i've got my first psychiatry appointment coming up, now i know exactly what i get to look forward to

[@rickycarrarini188]

Run bro

[@skyewehbi2125]

i have my first appointment soon too!! i’m not schizophrenic but hoping i get placed in on the meds that give parkinson’s!!🤞🏻

[@nuggs4snuggs516]

One of the ADHD medications I used to take gave me a feeling of having bugs crawling under my skin and an intense desire to scratch at that. The more stressed I got the worse it became, to the point I'd start biting at myself in an attempt to find any form of relief. Apparently a common side effect of many amphetamines, give it a try if you can.

[@mekiot]

Adhd meds truly have truly wonderful side effects! I had this one as well i belive

[@alienvomitsex]

Just got my ADHD dx and starting meds soon but don't know which. This should make life spicy

[@spingebill8551]

My ADHD meds give some people 4 hour long painful boners. Didn’t get this one.

[@SerpentineSeiđr]

My ADHD meds are amphetamine based, definitely noticed an increase in skin picking but the side effects are negligible for me tbh

[@troy612]

Tried Quetiapine for 3 days for my insomnia and "depression" (whatever that means). Upon waking up on the fourth morning, I had heart palpitations like I was being hit in the chest with an axe. As I was waking up, there were crows calling in the background and I dreamt I was being torn apart by a murder of crows. Thing is, the dreaming didn't stop after I woke up and I sat at the kitchen table for almost an hour feeling like I was having a heart attack while small chunks of me were being pecked off from all over. Ironically I had a doctor's appointment at 10am that day for a review of the medication and I haven't taken antipsychotics since. Don't know why to be honest, easily an S tier experience.

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

Take melatonin .3 mg is enough 1 hour before bedtime.You can also take 200-300mg of magnesium citrate before bed and is a mineral everyone is deficient in(by a lot) and helps you fall asleep. Get off that crap.

[@Legitimate123]

@@Tomas-ml9nv 3 or 0.3?

[@armybirds]

@@Tomas-ml9nv micrograms???

[@agyratingmonkey]

You wouldn't believe this but same

[@cats_shall_rise8842]

ughhh. I wish quetiapine wasn't prescribed for things where there are many other options. It can be such a nasty medication.

[@LinkSkywalker42]

As a hypochondriac, I now have all the symptoms described in this video and died seven or eight times while writing this comment

[@redpractition]

the brain zaps are a high i can’t stop chasing. i fucking LOVE brain zaps.

[@Legitimate123]

Effexor/venlafaxine brain zaps are the best!

[@marmar3530]

Ngl glad i don't have them anymore. Always freaked me out

[@xtldc]

My brain zaps were always paired with two other things that made them pretty unbearable - 1) feeling like my brain was sloshing around inside my skull (technically it is actually doing that) any time i moved or turned my head 2) feeling like I was falling through the floor/ground with each step - I could feel my foot hit the ground, but had a sensation like my body was continuing to travel downward even more.

[@Tanaconasaperson]

WHAT? But theyre so fucken scary?!.!?!

[@redpractition]

@@Tanaconasaperson this ratio is what’s scary

[@katef390]

i had akathisia for about a week and a half. it was the absolute worst experience of my life. it doesn't really sound that bad, but it is the most debilitating side effect i've ever experienced. i was crying, begging for it to stop. it was miserable. i felt such a deep sense of discomfort that i've never felt before or since. worst thing ever. glad you included it and took it so seriously, feels like people don't understand its severity just by the description.

[@llortaton2834]

"Kinda cancel itself out" I love how JrEg starts with self deprecation to make sure the watcher understand he's not taking a jab at them/their ailments.

[@DjKryx]

I take antidepressants and anxiolitycs as part of my treatment and i have never had any negative side effects. To be more precise, a had them with other antidepressants, but we tried a couple until we found the one that is good for me. But majority of my therapy came in the form of psychoanalysis, the medications actually took the passenger seat to the whole process. I finished my college with the highest honours, straight A's while being medicated. It is a process to find which one actually suits you. And now i am coming off of them, since i came out victorious after a long battle

[@birbup-j6k]

Drug-induced mania is a fun one. Being in treatment for depression when you're actually bipolar will take you for a ride. I like brain zaps, I would personally put them a little higher. Very accessible, all you gotta do is miss a dose and you're in the funny bone zone. Ranges from minor inconvenience to debilitating and there's no way to tell how long you'll have them for. Got a good zap in my car when discontinuing duloxetine and drove into a curb! I thought it was interesting how I could reproduce the symptoms with lateral eye movement and walking down stairs.

[@theknockwhoones8740]

I've been off medication for almost a year now and I still get brain zaps

[@birbup-j6k]

@@theknockwhoones8740 yeah it’s been a while for me i don’t think they’ll go away any time soon

[@SquashFactor]

@@theknockwhoones8740 been off effexor for about 10 years now. Had the zaps semi regularly for maybe 2 years, but they eventually petered out. If I'm sleep deprived and I move my eyes too fast I sometimes still get them tho, so not a total loss

[@wildflowerpersimmon2226]

Cymbalta is terrible especially when coming off it. I was nauseous for a month and wanted to kill myself.

[@Crazycliff98]

im quite familiar with dem zaps. tried to stop meds myself from hero to zero. after 4 days it felt like i have a zeus fucking my brain. couldnt even drive my car. the eye movement is very cool. it makes the world spin tehehe

[@DelectableWilly]

Was sick in a bed for a long time a few years back. After a while, the anxiety and loss of mobility as an 18 year old man had progressed fully into derealizaton, dissociation, and later, akathisia. Never before had I ever truly understood what it meant to genuinely crave cessation, worse than any depressive episodes I'd had until then. Nor will I forget, for the rest of my days. I rate SS+

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

I have a theory: Jr Egg doesn't actually have every mental illness because many of them intercect and make it impossible to have one if you have the other. Same with these side-effects. This leads me to believe Jr. Egg indeed is lying and his main and only mental illness is actually being a compulsive liar.

[@tildey6661]

Sounds like something a centrist would say… ready the guillotine!

[@empiredirt6530]

Jr. Egg cannot be a compulsive liar because he is merely a collective delusion that we're all cooperatively imagining. teamwork makes the dream work.

[@AndrewSchlegel]

So he's a dirty neurotypical?

[@frrrnixx9012]

That can't be true. The Gregster and I are great friends so I know him quiet well. I mean I don't actually know him in the literal sense and he doesn't know that I exist, but in every video where he shares something personal I feel a connection between him and me and I'm pretty sure he feels it, too. If we would ever meet irl I know we will become friends. Our relationship will change from parasocial to equosocial. So please stop spreading lies about my friend.

[@alululululu]

Who says he needs to have them all at once?

[@kevinslyter]

I recently got off of anti-depressants (6 years on 2 SSRI’s) and I realized I had been feeling numb, couldn’t connect with people, lost my faith, was mad because of all this, and had stomach issues so I ate 1-2 times a day, had migraines, had no concentration or motivation, and was sluggish and overslept 12-14hrs/day. Also vitamin D definitely helped. And I gained ten pounds when I got my appetite back. All this due to some family issues, and feeling like a failure. 🤦

[@alifathabadi6447]

I feel you bro

[@Kozymeisteryt]

hey thats just how I feel. Trying to start therapy next week instead of just relying on the drugs.

[@BL-sd2qw]

It's hard when you don't realize you have this until it's "too late". Sorry you had them too

[@BL-sd2qw]

Are you better now?

[@kevinslyter]

@@BL-sd2qw oh yes, I am much better, I feel things again especially

[@turtle_soda]

The real side effects were the psychosis induced “friends” we made along the way. (The joke is they aren’t real)

[@wesleyc38491]

Awww man ! That explains all the pizza leftovers ! I always order large pizza for my friends :)

[@nekosaiyajin8529]

Mine aren't friendly they just scream and laugh at me for all the things I did wrong

[@dominikweber4305]

@@nekosaiyajin8529 shut up

[@oddlysatisfying1790]

@@dominikweber4305 Why are you telling them to shut up? They're just sharing their experience and they are perfectly allowed to do so. Not everybody's experience is gonna be the same, man

[@Chloelol]

@@oddlysatisfying1790 I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but if you're not, they're playing into the other comment. They're saying shut up because they _are_ one of the other friends that screams and laughs at the other commenter.

[@erin-cb4sk]

bro i was on antidepressants and antipsychotics and it caused akathisia. literally the doctors had to prescribe me codeine to soothe it. did it work . .. no. i haven't been taking my medication for about 2 and half weeks now and despite not taking them and are out my system , the akathisia is still there. my medication caused me more problems then not taking them LMAO. also psychiatry is dumb because my antipsychotics made me depressed so they prescribed antidepressants to combat that. GOOD JOB :))

[@BL-sd2qw]

Lol, the irony. But seriously, I'm so sorry. I'm fucked up too.

[@rayres1074]

Yeah just change your psychiatrist ASAP. That professional seems to be a moron.

[@ckv954]

Did you taper them off slowly enough? I hear that akathesia can happen if you don’t do that properly

[@alina_pancake]

YEAH THE SAME WITH ME??? and It turned out I didn't even need such a strong medication cause it was just asd😭😭😭

[@d00gz_]

I appreciate Jreg’s cosplay as a middle school art teacher

[@chrispindustries9823]

Hey JrEg, you have no idea how much this video has helped me. I never knew how to describe or the word for akathisia, which ruined my life at one point in time. I always tried to describe it, but could never get it right. I still remember pacing around the house for 3 days straight without eating, drinking, sitting down, etc. It didn't stop until I fainted from exhaustion. I don't wish this upon anyone, and I'm so happy to not experience this anymore (knock on wood). Mine wasn't caused by antipsychotics, but began during a panic attack after I had taken a hallucinogen some days before but was then out of my system. I went to the doctor and tried everything to get them to help, but all they did was say, "it's your fault for taking it in the first place." Maybe it was, but I needed help because I was close to ending it. With this word you gave me, I feel like I can finally get some resolution. Thank you so much for making this. I wish you the best.

[@Ganerrr]

how is nausea D teir? I'd rather deal with so much of the higher tiers than nausea, nausea is the worst

[@frrrnixx9012]

It's too common I guess. What's the point of having your life ruined if it doesn't even make for a good story to tell?

[@goldenapple3952]

Trouble focusing and confusion is on D but pupil dialation is higher??? Tf???

[@agyratingmonkey]

Ever get the kind of nausea where suddenly you can't stand or think about anything except not ripping up your organs while you fight or follow the dry heaves? Scary stuff

[@iamasalad9080]

@@goldenapple3952 I guess you can get in trouble because it looks like you're high.

[@aneutralopinion1712]

Really like I would rather have nausea then suicidal ideation or feeling numb

[@MaviRB]

Wow, as PhD in cognitive science deeply interested on how the brain works (and thus the effect of drugs) these last few videos have been amazing, excellent way to reframe the conversation. The comments below these videos have really been gold. Thank you community for sharing.

[@TomECroft]

Good one Jreg, you sure showed those pharmacists

[@alexanderwill2847]

Nice one JrEg, you showed those pharmacists who's Doofenshmirtz

[@a-s-greig]

Nice one Doofenshmirtz, you sure showed those self-destruc-

[@petourium]

i experienced akathasia when i took abilify for three months during the summer and now i finally have a name for what that horrible, hellish psychological torture i was feeling actually was. thank you so much junior egg man

[@shipwrecker37]

That happened to me too! I was on abilify and had never felt ANYTHING like it before. I didn't even have words for it because it was so painful but unusual. Latuda gave me a lower grade version of it too.

[@x23849]

literally same with abilify i felt so tortured

[@petourium]

@@shipwrecker37 oh yea i have a friend who was on latuda and they said that was their worst experience on any medication. only thing they rated lower was lexapro cuz it gave them serotonin syndrome 💀

[@johndoe-bo7rx]

I mean this is the exact type of content I've been looking for. I just never knew how to put it into words. How many in the audience will like this for the wrong reasons.

[@Michael-kp4bd]

“How many in the audience will like this for the wrong reasons” encapsulates jreg content to its pure essence. That is what jreg lives by. It’s what it means to be jreg.

[@johndoe-bo7rx]

@@Michael-kp4bd I could cut the air

[@inlimbo1714]

There're no right reason to be wrong

[@Crabbadabba]

Hopefully not many because these kinds of symptoms are never remotely enjoyable or novel to experience.

[@Tomas-ml9nv]

Seems very real. Jregs past videos comments are too accurate for me not to believe it.

[@QuinnArgo]

I don't even know if there's a name of that symptom but the worst I had when I took fluoxetine (prozac) was not just numbness but the total emptiness and lack of imagination. Like usually my imagination would run wild coming up with ideas, making up scenarios, the problem I had with them was how paranoid and psychotic these could make me. So I take the drug and I entirely stop having imagination and fantasy, I just don't think of anything any more. My head just a dark void, empty, I feel barely anything because what is there to feel anything about? It wasn't that it was "bad" or "horrible", it was that it was so much *nothing* that I resented how boring, hollow, drone-like I am. If I was scared or frustrated about something, this would at least mean that I cared enough to want things to be better, but unable to dream, I didn't even care enough to imagine anything being different or better, and had I not quit on my own I'd probably have killed myself

[@1996Pinocchio]

I'm just a layperson, but I think this is the intended effect (not the suicidal part ofc). If you are psychotic or paranoid you want to take meds that weaken this imaginative part of your mind. It's interesting to hear how it feels like to take them. You should probably tell your psychiatrist of these effects. Ideally you want something at the right dosage, so that it numbs these thoughts and racing imagination, but not completely shuts them down.

[@Elias-fe9fs]

something like that happened to me, total loss of imagination, creativity, actual emotions, incredibly fast thought process, even dreams (before this i had extremely vivid dreams every night), for about a year and a half bc i was in a treatment center with some fairly severe symptoms and got overmedicated. got an early diagnosis of bipolar and bc i was younger they didn’t really know what to do abt it so i was overmedicated and ended up extremely sedated. the only reason i didn’t end up offing myself was I got moved to a longer term center and they slowly took me off everything.

[@RR-kz4hq]

I love hearing other people talk about what akathesia feels like. It’s very validating.

[@RaptorLlama]

Excellent list, Akathesia deserves its place at the top. I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. Latuda is a pretty mild antipsychotic but it still causes that.

[@RaptorLlama]

@@theknockwhoones8740 yeah I took it for quite a while but recently stopped because of this and I feel and function exactly as I did while I was on it just without Akathesia lol. Looking at some things online though I figure I had it relatively mild. F.e. I was able to fall asleep while experiencing it, in fact that's the only reliable way I could get it to end.

[@calliannakaylin8202]

latuda gave me brain zaps so bad i couldn’t hold a conversation it was like my train of thought reset after 10 seconds

[@pyrrhicc2030]

Thank you JunioR EmerGency physician. I have a pharmacology test tomorrow that I'd fail without this study guide!

[@Grgrqr]

“I always try to focus on what I’m grateful for rather than dwelling on the negative. Reach out. Don't isolate yourself. Develop positive relationships with people who build you up. I've made great friendships on *social media* .” -Person with Tardive dyskenesia

[@turtle_soda]

I don’t take any meds except for the ones they put in our tap water; although for what I have taken I concur that doctors love to surprise you with symptoms.

[@1996Pinocchio]

I'm sorry are you talking about meds "they" put into tap water of the whole population? Seems slightly paranoid, ngl

[@SoundShunter72]

He who puts a headache in a low tier hasn't had a good headache yet.

[@dianthus_rubrum]

I didn't see Insomnia. That's what i got when overdosed on antidepressants . EDIT - ah, there is sleeplessness in tier S. I would have ranked it lower but than I only had it for 48 hours in a row and was really active after 2 years of lethargy, so actually i welcomed it. than could find some coma like sleep. Than i had two suicidal days without much sleep. What _is_ missing is hyper sexuality. I had this too overdosing. I'd personally put it on A because of all the STD and physical abusive situation it can bring you if you are in an overactive I don't care state.

[@_Pyroon_]

Interesting. You got hyper sexuality from anti depressants? That's very odd. It's a good thing you didn't get seratonin syndrome if you oded on ssris

[@fightsilence7614]

@@_Pyroon_ one word: Wellbutrin

[@shredjward]

Was put on Lexapro somewhat randomly by a psych a few years back, which was awesome because it either gave me general muscle hypertension or straight up decreased respiratory function - as I'd wake up in excruciating pain from not breathing in my sleep! Which is _amazing_ because it makes thinking literally impossible and you become prone to sleeping for 25 hours straight, SS tier for super sleep!

[@lydiamulfinger6781]

Super sleep escitalopram/citalopram gang!

[@DoctorWhoNow01]

I'm on Lexapro right now, wdym by making thinking impossible? Also I kinda noticed the sleep thing but idk if it's from the meds or not. I've been on it about a month now but it's hard to tell what's a "side effect"

[@shredjward]

@@DoctorWhoNow01 i was on both abilify and lexapro which i think might have made a difference but im not sure, but the trouble thinking wasnt from lexapro directly, it was from not having a proper amount of oxygen going to my brain everytime i slept

[@DoctorWhoNow01]

@Sarebear so I feel fine still, not perfect but better than before I was on it by a noticable amount. The sleeping long hours thing does mess with me but I've always kinda been like that, if I don't have smth to do in the morning I can sleep for like 10 hours accidentally on a regular basis but waking up for school and stuff isn't much of a problem. Overall I'd def say try it but if you notice it's making negative changes in your life, try a different medication. Just know it takes ~a month or so to get the real effects of the medication. I might try a diff one but for the time being it's better than nothing and has less side effects than some that people ik take

[@DoctorWhoNow01]

@@shredjward you taking anything now? Something without any noticable side effects or minimal?

[@auguuuuuste]

D tier is just a heavy flow day fr

[@theladycata9648]

You missed a pretty good one with orthostatic hypotension, when your blood pressure drops upon standing or sitting up. Depending on the specific antipsychotic I’ve had it ranging from annoying dizzy spells to fainting whenever I try to stand up. Most of the side effects you listed take time to develop, but I assure you there’s nothing like being rendered unable to get off the bathroom floor for more than two minutes without collapsing (and maybe even vomiting, if you’re lucky) within 12 hours of taking your first dose of a drug.

[@BBWahoo]

My hypotension feels amazing when I'm high, it's like a Rollercoaster inside your mind

[@eRIN.666]

This is my favorite one ! Happens every time I stand up. Bonus points if you’re at a restaurant or work and you stand up and faint 😀

[@chibikarla]

I experienced this when I took lithium for over three years and having to limp across the subway stairs to get to class on time. Would recommend. B+!

[@meghanpfeiffer]

Oh my goodness, thank you for including akathisia. I've never heard of this, but started experiencing this. I told my counselor and psychiatrist, and neither of them mentioned that this was a possibility.

[@zoro494]

The only meds I’ve ever token was for adhd in like 4th grade and I was slipping in and out of reality. Can’t imagine taking meds for anything else after that.

[@_Pyroon_]

Adhd meds can be very strong for some people. They can even prompt psychosis in some. I can easily take 60mgs of amphetamine (Adderall) and sleep in the same day whereas I have a friend without adhd and he starts to have strange reality feelings at 5mg

[@isasou1307]

ritalin?

[@starh4te]

To become the most radical anti-centrist you have to exhibit every single medication side effect with every psychotropic drug you take (which has to be all of them, every single one ever manufactured)

[@starh4te]

AAIT WHAT THE FUCK WE DIDNT EVENE READ THE DESCRIPTION

[@goblin_rights]

dude taught me more about my medicine's side effects in 10 minutes than my actual prescriber did in seven years

[@gruzi.]

This video made me finish my prescriptions early I can’t wait to test out these effects!

[@SquishyDaFeeshy]

Dizziness, disorienting brain zaps, headaches, nausea and nightmares after stopping antidepressants but then taking antidepressants caused suicidal urges, depression and crippling anxiety - that was the hell my life was for the past 2 months. SS tier easily

[@Alorand]

My favorite rare side effect was Stevens-Johnson syndrome which causes skin lesions which in very rare cases can extend to the skin on the inside of your lungs. It's a known rare side effect of Lamotrigine a mood stabilizer for Bipolar disorder.

[@beesindisguise5375]

I was literally about to comment about this. It’s amazing that I gotta worry about my skin peeling off in order to have a stable mood!!

[@ogredandy]

I had SJS and it was not a fun time.

[@mintmerino]

As someone who's gone through way too many psychiatric medications to find what works and suffered through some bizarre, annoying, and sometimes scary side effects, I've never felt so seem by a YT video & comment section. Fortunately, I've been on the same meds for a couple of years now and have been relatively stable. Yipee!

[@mogoyogo]

Every so often I like to check out a Jrome Eggbert video just to see where they are mentally and yeah, this checks out.

[@codyschrock4991]

Confusion should definitely be higher. Nothing like the feeling that something is missing in your thought process and not knowing why or what is missing. Also, it doesn't leave until you let go of the thing you were trying to think about. Really strange and can be debilitating.

[@accountrarysi2776]

You seem to be an expert on this stuff, good one Dr.Egg :)

[@hdog9046]

Anhedonia is fun, it's even more fun when you become frustrated with it and explode into anger, often taking it out on your loved ones, which then makes you depressed, sometimes you even get a few days of being able to feel happiness, just to remind you of how good it felt to feel joy, before it drags you back in to the cycle. It's even more fun when the doctors barely acknowledge it. Thanks for taking me on a wonderful trip down memory lane.

[@DolphinTillTheEnd]

Anhedonia is cool because it's not that you feel sad, it's that are unable to feel positive emotions, which can be very life ruining, so I'd put it higher. Nothing like having an emotional range going from hating yourself to being completely numb

[@ominarous]

Just develop alexithymia, then you can have little to no emotional range whatsoever. Anhedonia is weak stuff

[@amiablebee7318]

@seraphim far too relatable to be funny. Liked 👍

[@jennalepage7631]

I've had total emotional numbness as a symptom when I was taking a certain ADHD medication in middle/high school. The emotional numbness was mostly a problem when I had to take it when I wasn't in school, because my parents think that me stimming is a sign of anxiety and not something I just do because it's fun. The complete emotional detachment sort of caused some mild dissociation, mostly because without any emotions, I was just going through the motions. When people would talk to me about sad things or happy things, I just couldn't feel anything other than the recognition that what they were talking about was good or bad. Still, I kept taking it because previously I had been having meltdowns pretty much every single day, and I was getting to the age where people were telling me to "grow up" and stop crying over every small thing, and this was the first thing that actually stopped those meltdowns, so for awhile I figured that was the price I had to pay for "emotional stability". So glad I'm off it now, I swear the emotional exhaustion I'd feel coming home from school every day was the absolute worst. Overall B tier in my opinion. Along with my emotions though, that same medication also took at least 90% of my appetite. I could feel it in my stomach when I got really hungry, but the part of hunger where you start to salivate and think about what you wanna eat was just gone. I had to force myself to down as much food as I could until I started gagging. It didn't matter how good the food tasted, if I didn't feel like I had room for it, I was gonna have to choke it down and try not to throw up. Needless to say, I lost a lot of weight. The solution I was given mainly just told me to try my very best to stuff a normal amount of food in my face. Also to try and catch up on calories when I was off the medicine. All in all, B tier as well.

[@DavidM_603]

Love this tier list. Could you do a voting system tier list? I don't know which reform I should support and I'd like you to just decide for me.

[@beauswrld]

These genuinely make me happy as someone who experiences a good bout of these. Now do one about medication withdrawal, so I can have something else to look forward to!

[@_Pyroon_]

I've withdrawled from caffeine, Ritalin, amphetamine, ambian, kratom, testosterone, and high doses of an opiod you have likely never heard of. Opiods by far the best. Id trade 10+ days of amphetamines withdrawal if it meant one less day of opiod withdrawl.

[@AbbiZika]

Tardive dyskinesia was one of my worst side effects when I was (mis)diagnosed with a mood disorder and put on an antipsychotic. My tongue would jut out of my mouth and I wouldn't be able to put it back in my mouth. It was horrific. My face would hurt so badly from how tense my face was. It also made it absolutely impossible to swallow, which caused a couple near death experiences. Another fun side effect of that antipsychotic was PSYCHOSIS. Anyway, I'm doing great now. I dealt with my depression and have it under control now and I am so very thankful that I was able to get myself off of medications besides my SNRI and back into life with a career I love. Good vibes and hugs to you guys who are going through it. You're not alone and things really do get better. ❤️

[@covereye5731]

Very broad and not necessarily a side effect, but being allergic to medication deserves a high rating just for being a surprise add-on that can come with all with of them.

[@catpoke9557]

Not exactly a side effect, but a withdrawal symptom. Crying when you're not sad, feeling nauseous constantly, suffering contant anxiety, and having electricity-like zapping sensations in your brain reverberating through your whole body when you move are the fun effects I had when I forgot to get my lexapro refilled.

[@sleepyJaclyn]

Back in January 2020 while at a Russian hospital for benzo withdrawal, Jordan Peterson was diagnosed by a team of doctors with akathisia and schizophrenia. His daughter Michaela quickly came to his rescue saying that the doctors had misdiagnosed the akathisia as schizophrenia, when in actuality he was diagnosed with both. You can still find articles about it although with any mention of schizophrenia now edited out, I can only assume that Peterson and his daughter went around making legal threats in order to hide this strange detail.

[@IncredibleIceCastle]

He gives me absolutely no suspicion that he is schizophrenic. I’m not a fan either he just doesn’t ever show symptoms

[@RyaoZero]

I should mention that russian school of psychiatry has a bad practice of overdiagnosing schizophrenia. I heard that it's the same with ADHD and autism at the west. Practically that "schizophrenia" diagnosis makes it possible to give you powerful antipsychotics without delays and questions. This shitty tradition goes since USSR. While Soviet psychiatry have done many cool stuff, they also reeeallly loved to put everything into "schizophrenia" category. Anxiety disorders / depression? - "Passive schizophrenia" BPD? - "Depressive-Maniacal schizophrenia" etc. Those names were abandoned, but the tendency to detect schizophrenia without the one is still present.

[@sleepyJaclyn]

@@IncredibleIceCastle This is from the preface for Maps of Meaning: “I started to hear a “voice” inside my head, commenting on my opinions. Every time I said something, it said something- something critical. The voice employed a standard refrain, delivered in a somewhat bored and matter-of-fact tone: You don't believe that. That isn't true. You don't believe that. That isn't true. The “voice” applied such comments to almost every phrase I spoke.” (Pg. 27) For more context I’ll point to this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGepXp2vp7h1nck Here JP tells the story of the emergence of this voice, which happened around the time he was reentering University. My point is that if he does have schizophrenia, this would be about the age it would first start effecting him.

[@IncredibleIceCastle]

@@sleepyJaclyn fair but where are the delusions and or visual hallucinations which are hallmarks of schizophrenia? If he does have it it must be an extremely manageable or well medicated case of it

[@solame10101]

@@sleepyJaclyn Could be, could also be a kind of awakening to a self critical voice. I feel like i may have always had it too, but at some point it got more pronounced where my thinking got better. Where things i would normally have a pretty biased belief of, i would now also feel some kind of voice rationality stop me from believing it as simply or at all. As long as its speculation and not directly noticable, does it really matter?

[@alexanderwill2847]

Me when Jreg was skewering politics, subtly implying he supported various terrible things, to the point that even I was wondering if maybe he really did: "Boy, I sure hope he doesn't get canceled!" Me when JrEg makes fun of mental health: "Wait, seriously, why aren't we canceling him?" Fortunately Jreg and JrEg are two different people, so I'll never have to resolve this contradiction within myself. Love ya, Greg!

[@sonoflethal]

I liked the part where he subtly implied he was racist by saying Heil Hitler, really made me think

[@matts9871]

this is exactly the content i have always wanted and needed. perfect shit. it's like you reached directly into my brain and found this unspoken desire within me, but im saying that in a normal non-mentally ill way

[@lalabing9733]

I had a rare one from my anti psychotics and my anti depressants. It's where your eyes uncontrollably roll back into your skull. It gets severely painful and made me unable to sleep.

[@lalabing9733]

@Jules C It wasn't. I went to my psychiatrist about it and called it "Bulbous drejning." (I'm Danish.) Which translates to bulbous turning. It's a known symptom of anti psychotics and the anti depressants brought it out somehow when I started them. I got Lysantin for it which helped a bit while I was weaning off my medication. I remember a night where I tried sleeping and stayed awake for like 48 hours because I simply couldn't sleep and was just crying.

[@lalabing9733]

@Jules C Yeah, the symptoms I had are close to TD. I am scared shitless of developing it as it sounds horrible. I quit my medications recently though and haven't had a psychotic episode yet. I am hoping it continues that way.

[@lalabing9733]

@Jules C You too. Dealing with psychotic medication is rarely ever easy. Psychotic symptoms even less so. I hope you can find the level of therapy and medication that helps you in your life.

[@wilsonmccoy240]

oculogyric crisis?

[@lalabing9733]

@@wilsonmccoy240 Yes, that is what it is. Thanks for telling me the name of it

[@zombieedrea]

idk why this video from a year ago popped up in my recommendations, but I saw the title and desperately hoped akathisia would be mentioned, and lo and behold!! I had the pleasure of discovering what akathisia is last year while I was currently going to doctor to doctor to doctor trying to figure out why my appetite suddenly disappeared and stopped menstruating for months (the only thing they could tell me was that it was severe stress). And then all of a sudden I couldn't. Stop. Moving. It was a living hell. I literally felt like a prisoner in my own body. Couldn't sleep for more than 4 or 5 hours. Could not focus on anything. Could not lay down and be still. The only time I was okay was when I was eating (which, like I said, wasn't much) and working, which at the time required me being stationary in one spot and moving my arms constantly. Asked my doctor about this during an appointment about my other health problems and was like "btw i can't stop fucking moving????" Then she said it was a common side-effect of certain medications and I'd been on risperidone for years. Then my psychiatrist and therapist also said it was akathisia, and then informed me that side effects like this can happen at any time regardless of how long you've been taking it. (And this was quite literally the only med that has ever worked for me.) They said, "if you stop taking the medication you'll be able okay in about 7 - 10 days." It took three weeks. I'm fine now, thank god, but I can't really describe the genuine despair and anxiety I felt. I wanted someone to kill me because I couldn't do it myself *because I couldn't stop fucking moving.* And then it just...stopped? Like, one day I couldn't stop moving and became completely trapped in my own body and then it just went away. It was genuinely traumatizing. If this is why Jordan Peterson put himself in a coma, then I completely understand why. I would've done the exact same thing if I was able to. Sorry for the essay, just wanted to share. Shout out to anyone who had to/is dealing with akathisia. I hope y'all are okay.

[@wakingcharade]

nice to see the new kitchen set up! looks like the floor isn't coming apart here. A dishwasher! moving up in the world.

[@mdgraller]

9:45 "In 1976, a 23-year-old graduate student in chemistry named Barry Kidston was searching for a way to make a legal recreational drug. Having read the paper by Ziering and Lee, he deduced that he could make a drug with pethidine's effects without its legal restrictions, since desmethylprodine is a different molecule and had never been addressed by law. Kidston successfully synthesized and used desmethylprodine for several months, after which he suddenly came down with the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and was hospitalized. Physicians were perplexed, since Parkinson's disease would be a great rarity in someone so young, but L-dopa, the standard drug for Parkinson's, relieved his symptoms. L-dopa is a precursor for dopamine, the neurotransmitter whose lack produces Parkinson's symptoms. It was later found that his development of Parkinson's was due to a common impurity in the synthesis of MPPP called MPTP (1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine), a neurotoxin that specifically targets dopamine producing neurons."

[@katyusha2308]

After taking antipsychotics I probably got the weirdest side effect I‘ve ever heard of. So I got milk out of my breast due to a higher production of prolactine, a hormone that you usually produce after giving birth. I literally freaked out because my breast hurt so much. Now I’m prepared for motherhood.

[@dorianlamb8824]

side effect not mentioned here: complete emotional and empathic blunting/shutdown. it is a really terrifying and life-altering side effect when you, like most living humans, experience a full or even semi-full emotional spectrum and empathy. that and homicidal ideation. i could best compare it to a temporary heavy sociopathy/aspd. some sociopaths experience only partial emotional and empathic blunting their whole life, but whatever i went thru on medication was like the most severe version of this. aside from the anhedonia was basically no desire for anything other than to cause suffering and even that was less desire and more to trigger some, any reaction in myself. i think it's pretty common in general for someone with a temporarily low mental availability to consider dramatic measures to 'restore normalcy' or at least create some kind of feeling. but yeah uh!!! psychiatric drugs should always be a last resort and you should always be able to refuse them or go off the medication with the support and guidance of a doctor. shit can get fucked up! also ime it is always better to learn to manage an illness without medication unless it is truly and definitely unmanageable (just like with physical issues.. if you take antibiotics for every little cold or what have you your immune system will be fucked). not only do medications have their own slurry of side effects but it's also a generally bad idea to become addicted to or dependent on a bunch of substances you cannot easily and always attain. if its behind a wall of prescription, what is to save you if the medication is at a shortage, or if you lose your insurance, etc etc? anyway yea, sympathies to people who have had to deal with many side effects. p.s: i'm pretty sure another unmentioned side effect for long term psych med use with some medications is a greater likelihood and more severe than it would be otherwise dementia and such. chemical lobotomy is a very real thing and you need to do your research before you are spending years, decades on prescription psych drugs

[@BakedRoll]

I can't agree with the placement of dry mouth in the D tier. There are varying levels, so I think it could be placed in high-mid B tier. The thing you seemed to have missed out on is what happens *because* of the dry mouth. Imagine waking up every other hour dying of thirst, and then needing to empty your bladder a couple times each night. You never actually get a good night's sleep because you're constantly drinking and pissing! Of course, you also have issues with bad breath because your mouth is constantly dry, and no matter what you do or how much you drink, you can never satisfy how parched you feel every hour of the day! So at its worst, I'd easily rate it A tier.

[@desertdove]

not to mention the fact that it makes your teeth rot out of your skull

[@Noxiousgames]

You forgot the best side effect of all. That being a side effect of my ADHD medication (methylfenidatehydroxide) which is *spontaneous death* It's not a heart attack, it's not a seizure either. It just says "spontaneous death" on the side effect list

[@thatweirdthinginthecorner]

I do wish I knew how easy serotonin syndrome was to get and how hard it can b to recognize, including both for yourself and for your doctor, and how death-guaranteeing it is and stuff before it happened to me. I don’t know if my friend realizes how much they may have actually saved my life when they made me go to the nurse that day lol

[@thatweirdthinginthecorner]

actually I didn’t even really know about it for a few months at least after it happened either. When it did happen, my doc had no idea what was happening, and then a few weeks later my mom mentioned in a call that the doc had said it was smthn called “serotonin syndrome” (this was while I was in highschool, but it was a highschool I lived at away from my family). I didn’t think anything of it until it randomly popped up in my mind a while later and googled it and realized how I could’ve died lol.

[@ominarous]

I took 2g of sertraline (14x my dose at the time lmao). Wasn't trying to hurt myself but i wanted to die by the end of it. Definitely an S tier experience.

[@johnd2058]

Great list, perfect editing. Almost made me sorry that the worst time I ever had was only sleeping for three days straight for no reason on Abilify --- which made me soooooooo relaaaxxxed. Going off of it meant a week of not being able to stand my own company, like my mind was trying to eat itself.

[@emilys9976]

lol every time i stop abilify this happens to me. literally can NOT stay awake for days. and i get super sweaty snd then it goes away.

[@amiablebee7318]

I was on abilify and it gave me straight up akathisia and the inability to sleep, great combo for sure. I had a weird reaction to it I think.

[@johnd2058]

@@emilys9976 & Bee I think mine was the weird reaction then, as it was sleepy-when-on for me.

[@BlatheringBlighter]

People really sleeping on excessive nightmares tbh, should be a clear C-tier.

[@quinadams3181]

having crippling insomnia due to fear of being tormented by horrendous nightmares 10 outa 10 highly recommend

[@dk0412]

Having vivid dreams about committing suicide from my antidepressants was truly *chef's kiss*

[@aternias]

this is my new favorite channel. As someone with multiple mental illness’ I can relate to all of this

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

My least favorite ones were from a bad reaction I had when put on a medicine to treat schizophrenia* while in the hospital. I experienced sweating, continuous uncontrollable full-body muscle spasms, blurred vision, racing thoughts, an elevated heart rate [like 2.5 times my baseline when they measured it], hyperactivity to the point I felt like sitting still was going to kill me, suicidal ideation, and time dilation - time felt like it was crawling along, probably because I was in a constant state of agony for five hours straight. 0/10, would not recommend. Would recommend the power nap I took afterward when my body finally relaxed. Get your sleep. I know we live in a culture that plays it pretty fast and loose with our sleep schedules, but regulating your sleep really does wonders for your body. Sleep is 10/10, best waifu, will fight to defend their honor. *Inconclusive diagnosis, with differing opinions from a handful of health care professionals. I don't know what I have and I don't think it matters as long as I work to maintain a positive mental state; I've felt better the last six years going without medication but spending time on self-reflection, good diet and sleeping habits, leaving the toxic people in my life behind, and going out of my way to do things that make me happy. I get that medication can be important and/or necessary for a lot of people, but this is a reminder that sometimes all you need is to find your vibe and stick with it.

[@Katherout]

in love with your content king

[@naiveandjaded]

this is teaching me more than my psychiatrist ever did, but to be fair i never went to our meetings

[@badernera7497]

As someone who's had about 4 heavy medications shoved down my throat by psychiatric institutions, I give this a 9.7/10

[@askmelaterlol653]

Thanks for this one Jreg! I've had alot of these myself and ended up having to quit antidepressants and anti psychotics, both of which were prescribed to me as a 16 year old! My favorite was akathisia for sure! Tons of fun, really enjoyed that, would give it a SS teir right next to my now seemly permanent muscle spasms.

[@sophiafaith1000]

As a nursing student found this super helpful

[@yvannoss]

Now we just need a ‘Psychiatric Medication’ tier list. RATE MY DRUGS!! Ambien SS tier

[@leregulek]

zolpidem and zopiclona (i dont know the name in the US for that) are really the best, of course an SS tier. The really good stuff comes when u live in a third world country and u only can afford the cheapest of all laboratories. What a way to induce those side effects!

[@hazelsahara6716]

Every med for epilepsy is absolutely S tier, had to take antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds mostly just to cope with the side effects AND they made me stupider

[@stabinojablonski]

anticholinergics S tier

[@aysenur6761]

Her prescribed medication brought forward the beginning of my aunt's Huntington's disease. My relatives who were diagnosed started to show semptoms in their late 40s but her semptoms started in the late 30s. Several psychiatrists made her use the drug for years and recently a neuroscientist told that that drug with some other heavy psychotropic drugs she've used in the past that have parkinson-like side effects are most probably responsible for the early peak of the symptoms. SS tier?

[@mariyannuism]

What was the medication? 😨😨 I'm so sorry for what happened to your aunt

[@aysenur6761]

@@mariyannuism thank you. It was something called Risperdal if I remember correctly.

[@theweaponizedloser4719]

I don't think you get the joke.

[@wildflowerpersimmon2226]

Huntington's is unavoidable and blaming it on the drugs inducing it faster is just a wild guess.

[@aysenur6761]

@@wildflowerpersimmon2226 huntington's is a progressive degeneration of brain cells and how early the stages start or progress differs from person to person. The chance of this process being effected by drugs that have neurological function and side effects is not wild at all. At least this is what a professional neuroscientist told.

[@jimc.goodfellas]

Great going Jeg, you sure showed those pharmaceutical companies who's boss

[@yainaya_]

A tier list, you just love to see it. And combining it with mental illnesses? Perfect.

[@TeaUnicorn]

i always ignore the side effects on meds bc theyre usually like a 1 in 100 thing or barely noticeable but what's crazy abt adhd meds is they actually Do have side effects and nothing prepared me for being warned about dry mouth n suddenly constantly having one, crazy!

[@Agender_Potato]

Adderall fucked me up, i got addicted and was abusing it

[@TeaUnicorn]

@@Agender_Potato that's horrible, im sorry to hear that :(

[@Agender_Potato]

@@TeaUnicorn it happens, my mother knew i had a higher chance of getting addicted but 🤷 I'm an adult now so i control my meds

[@bj_cat103]

As someone who experienced akathisia, it is truely like hell on earth, but I'd still pout it below suicidal thoughts or heart issues since it doesn't kill you at least. It's a torture, but the one you survive Also, each time I had it, I just stopped taking the pills and drunk a lot of water and it always got better in a day

[@hello-jy9hf]

My psychiatrist: *wants to prescribe 1mg of Haldol with my 100mg of Zoloft* Me: _"Hold on, let me check the tier list"_

[@DS-wp2dj]

Oh akathisia! So that's what it's called. I call it "my spinal column developed its own malign sentience and is attempting to secede from the rest of my body and crawl out through the back of my neck and now I can't stop flexing every joint and mucle in my body to escape its wrath"