Substances
SSRIs (Prozac, Lexapro…)
Across 2,001 answers, 3.9% gave the top answer (a 10/10 or “changed my life”) and 27% said it helped a lot or more.
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Surveys with all five answers · 1,994 answers
- Life-changing
- Big help
- Slight help
- Did nothing
- Made it worse
Antidepressants like Prozac, Lexapro, Zoloft or sertraline, prescribed for depression and anxiety. How people who took an SSRI rate its effects.
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2,001 answers in total: 1,994 from surveys and 7 from this site.
- Life-changing: 43%, 3 votes
- Big help: 43%, 3 votes
- Slight help: 14%, 1 vote
- Did nothing: 0%, 0 votes
- Made it worse: 0%, 0 votes
- Life-changing: 3.8%, 75 votes
- Big help: 23%, 450 votes
- Slight help: 39%, 780 votes
- Did nothing: 23%, 452 votes
- Made it worse: 12%, 237 votes
Survey answers are converted to these five answers. Each kind of questionnaire gets its own chart, because not every survey offered every answer. In Nootroflix (2022) and the SlateStarCodex 2019 survey, a 10 out of 10 rating counts as “changed my life”.
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Self-reported experiences, not medical advice. High scores mean people reported strong positive effects. They do not mean something is safe, effective long-term, or appropriate for you. Self-reports can miss delayed harms, dependence, withdrawal, side effects, and selection bias. Don't start or stop a medication because of a chart.
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