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I Wonder What My Purpose Here Is

SSRIs are a strange reality in this world.
I find myself in inertia between whether to live my life medicated and be a "happy" zombie or to live with my flatness in a state of neutrality. It raises so many questions.

Is it addressing a problem, or is it patching over the reality of modern life?
Does ambition come from happiness or are those like myself just ambitionless in the eyes of society?
or perhaps our ambitions are simple and aren't perceived as worthwhile or seen as short sighted/limited.

When it all comes down to it we are just receptors for stimulus, hoping we feel something good enough to give our life a sense of meaning or to feel like it was all worth it.
Experiencing as much as we can while we can in the hopes of some form of revelation that will sate our hunger for more and bring us a sense of contentment.

Life is a strange experience, as is the world that facilitates it.
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LyricalOne · F
When SSRIs are working properly, you feel neither medicated nor like a happy zombie. You feel like yourself and wanting to live life. But the tremendous effort that takes is eliminated.
LarryStrawman · 22-25, M
@LyricalOne From the way you describe it seems it could make you more productive. Do you think it helps you study harder?
@LyricalOne Yes, i've felt that before when i was medicated.
Though i went off them eventually as i felt i wasn't myself, even if that self was an easier person to be.

It's a strange sensation/choice to have. I certainly don't "need" them like i did back then, but i'm very neutral/flat.
I probably have what people would call a high functioning form of depression but it's not a sad kind anymore.

I've had a lot of core beliefs/dreams shattered without trying to sound dramatic, they were temporal. So i'm still in search for reason and purpose. Without that, we're bound to feel flat.
LyricalOne · F
@LarryStrawman Helps to study period. In the depths of depression, that’s barely possible.
LyricalOne · F
@Gh0s1 Are you in therapy?
@LyricalOne I've had it before, it helped me during a bad patch following some unpleasant events. I have nothing to talk about really, i think a lot as it is/self analyse frequently.